Relationships Quotes
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?
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.
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.
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
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.
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.
Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.
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.
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.
What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.
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.
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
Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down
You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process.
If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.
When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.
Relationships: It takes wisdom to know when to turn the page and courage to know when to close the book.
Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.
The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.
May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.
The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam
Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.
Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.
All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.
He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything, it was for a manto shut up.
True love doesn’t exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.
Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.
Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.