“You bump into your ex one day and he seems to know everything about your life (after the breakup): What you’re doing, who you’re seeing etc.”— Lisa Redfield, howtogetaguytowantyou.com
“In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault…”— Jeffrey R. Holland, lds.org
“Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love t…”— Bell Hooks, huffingtonpost.com
“The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things. The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe…And what a wonderful relief every so often to know who your enemy is–because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time. A…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Look, maybe... this challenges what you thought you were. And... maybe I'm gonna get my heart broken in a thousand different pieces. But those are maybes. You can't live your life according to maybes.”— Poussey Washington, youtube.com
“She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, goethesociety.org
“When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”— Ellen Degeneres, make-me-successful.com
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”— Elizabeth Edwards, abcnews.go.com
“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, purposefairy.com
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”— J.K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”— Ernest Hemingway, thecreativeham.com
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”— Dieter F. Uchtdorf, positivepsychologyprogram.com