“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Betrayal, Perserverance, Choosing Love
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”— David Richo, amazon.comTagged: Trust, Relationships, Self-Trust, Love, Intimacy
“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love, strength, Trust
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Relationships, Pain, Trust, Disappointment, Morality
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting”— Robert Glover, goodreads.comTagged: Perfection, Perfectionism, Life, Relationships, Authenticity
“If you want stable love, you have to be stable yourself.You have to know what you want from life even if you’re not there, you have to understand what you want out of a relationship even if you’ve never been in one and you have to be consistent with the love you give to others to receive consistency…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love and Relationships, Love, Love And Dating, Dating, Relationships
“We’re told that love conquers all, but in truth love alone does not make for a good and healthy relationship.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.comTagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating
“You will never be satisfied in your relationship unless you learn to truly love yourself. If you don't genuinely love yourself, you will never fully trust that anyone else can love you.”— Sabrina Alexis, Eric Charles, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“Happiness isn't owed to you, and it doesn't come from your relationship. You create your own sense of happiness and fulfillment.”— Sabrina Alexis, Eric Charles, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Guy Advice, Relationship Advice
“No relationship will ever make you whole, happy, or fulfilled. That’s the little-known fact about relationships that no one likes to talk about because it’s not as romantic as the idea of someone else coming into the picture and filling your life with sunshine and rainbows. The truth is that you nee…”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.comTagged: Dating Advice, Guy Advice, Relationship Advice