Relationships Quotes
The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.
Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.
We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.
Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.
Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.
Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down
It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing
I can't help it. You bring it out in me, " he accused. "No, " I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind.
Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.
What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
Part of me wanted to give him a piece of my mind. He didn't get it as a whole, so I will keep my peace.
And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.
Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.
Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.
Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?
We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.
Next to God, Family is the best thing.
A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein
As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.
At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.
I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength.
Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It’s easier to navigate the world without that burden.
Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
No one said parenting was easy, but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.
Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)