But What Are Loyalty And Caring

“But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"

"To me? Everything.”

~ Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

It Is Necessary To Fall In Love

“It is necessary to fall in love – 

the better to provide an alibi 

for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”

~ Albert Camus

Become The Leader Of Your Life

“Become the leader of your life. 

Lead yourself to where you want to be. 

Breathe life back into your ambitions, 

your desires, your goals, your relationships.”

~ Steve Maraboli, 

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The Weather Of Love

THE WEATHER OF LOVE

Love 

Has a way of wilting

Or blossoming

At the strangest,

Most unpredictable hour.

This is how love is,

An uncontrollable beast

In the form of a flower.

The sun does not always shine on it.

Nor does the rain always pour on it

Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.

Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,

And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.

Water it.

Give it plenty of sunlight.

Nurture it,

And the flower of love will

Outlive you.

Neglect it or keep dissecting it,

And its petals will quickly curl up and die.

This is how love is,

Perfection is a delusional vision.

So love the person who loves you

Unconditionally,

And abandon the one

Who only loves you

Under favorable

Conditions.”

~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: 

The Writings of Suzy Kassem

I Thought He Should Have Realized

“I thought he should have realized sooner 

that important people don't show up very often, 

and you should hold on to them when they do. 

Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, 

because that was something I'd always known.”

~ Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love

The Heart Is Like A Woman

“The heart is like a woman, 

and the head is like a man, 

and although man is the head of woman, 

woman is the heart of man, 

and she turns man's head 

because she turns his heart.”

~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

You Didn't Just Cheat On Me

“You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. 

You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.”

~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: 

Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Delusion Detests Focus

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

~ Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

For [Erotically Intelligent Couples]

“For [erotically intelligent couples], 

love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, 

and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. 

Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. 

They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, 

to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. 

They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. 

It’s a story that they are writing together, 

one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. 

There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, 

always something about the other still to be discovered.”

~ Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: 

Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

I Had A Dream About You

“I had a dream about you last night. 

The champagne was non-alcoholic. 

You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.”

~ Michael Summers, I Had a Dream About You

Marriage As A Long Conversation

“Marriage as a long conversation. 

- When marrying you should ask yourself this question: 

do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? 

Everything else in a marriage is transitory, 

but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

In The Best

“In the best,

 the friendliest and simplest relations 

flattery or praise is necessary, 

just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. ”

~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

How Was I Supposed To Know

“How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? 

It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”

~ Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

I Think When Men Hear

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, 

they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship,

 but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. 

I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”

~ Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?