I will walk side by side with you, and when we reach a door...I will open it for you because I'm polite...not because you're a woman. If you reach it first and open it to go through, I'll hold it so I can follow you. If you hold it for me, I'll go through and say thank you.

Being married, who picks up the tab for dinner is not an issue anymore, but when dating it was paid by whoever had the money at the time. If you call me up to inform me of reservations you made at Le Chateau knowing that I don't get paid until Friday and am strapped for cash because of the rent and car payment coming due on the same day...well, I'm gonna ask you if you have any money before we hang up the phone. But if I've got the cash, I don't mind paying because I like to eat too. I guess it's a matter of moderation.

You treat people nice because you care about them, not because it's what they expect of you.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.