Stop Settling, Because You Deserve Consciousness-Altering Love

50 quotes

You deserve to be taken on a real date. You deserve butterflies in your stomach. You deserve a real thing. A real man. 

“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”

“We have got to let these toxic people go. They’re only bringing us down.”

“You deserve someone who will stay with you during the stormy days and assures you that there will be a rainbow somewhere along the way.”

— Dian Tinio, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: deserving, Love, Comforting

“I deserve someone who genuinely gives a shit. I deserve someone who cares about me and my life. I deserve someone who I don’t have to bribe to come with me on a walk, but instead wants to come, who maybe even asks me to come.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Effort, Relationships, deserving

“He’s not worth your tears, the 3 a.m. thoughts, hell he doesn’t deserve a place in your palace.”

— Arvin Faustino, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Breakups, Tears, Exes

“You think to yourself, ‘I love him, and that’s enough.’ No. It’s not enough. It’s not enough when the laughter between you is gone and the flame you once had has burnt out.”

— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Settling, Love, Breakups

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, Dating, Happiness

“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that. I am better than that... Goodbye.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Respect, Commitment

“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”

— Mandy Hale, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, thankful, Perspective

“Maybe that's what love was, finding the person who brings out the best in you and eliminates the worst.”

— Diana Holquist, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Better Person, Improvement

“You cannot force yourself to stay with someone just because your family loves him. You cannot force yourself to stay with someone when your heart doesn’t want it anymore. You deserve to be happy, and if he is not making you happy, then for God’s sake, LEAVE. You are better than this.”

— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Settling, Love, Breakups

“You deserve the love that never keep scores or lists of wrong doings because you know for sure that relationship is a commitment, a bond between two people, and not a competition of who will win or lose.”

— Nicole Phreeman, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Love, Competition, Commitment

“If doing things with me is too much for you I don’t want you in my life.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Effort, Dating, Relationships

“You deserve to fall in love with someone who doesn’t want to break your heart or play with it, you deserve someone who can remind you that love is not a game, that everyone who ever played you was the real loser and you deserve someone who’s terrified of losing you.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: deserving, Love, Games

“You deserve someone who will never require you to change in order to fit other people’s standards.”

— Dian Tinio, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: deserving, Change, Standards

“When it’s right, you won’t be swimming in doubts. You won’t be consumed with what-ifs when you try to fall asleep at night. You won’t worry about expiration dates or if you should plan trips together. Everything won’t feel so unclear.”

— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Doubts, Confusion, mixed signals

“I can’t think of a single, solitary human I know that is unlovable.”

— Will Penney, thoughtcatalog.com.loox.nu

Tagged: Unlovable, humans, deserving

“The right guy will come along and prove to you why he not only deserves a chapter in your book, he deserves to be the title.”

— Arvin Faustino, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: True Love, Permanent, forever person

“You deserve to be taken on a real date. You deserve butterflies in your stomach. You deserve a real thing. A real man. A man who knows how to treat you right.”

— Nataliia Totka, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: deserving, dates, Men

“I’ll never tell you how to live your life, but I think you know deep down that you’re better than him and I hate to see you settling for a mediocre life instead of a life that is filled with pure bliss and happiness.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Love, Happiness, Settling