What We Wait Around

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, 

we can find in a moment with someone else.” 

~ Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

Women Cannot Complain

“Women cannot complain about men anymore 

until they start getting better taste in them.” 

~ Bill Maher

If You Spend Your Time

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer 

the consequences for what they did to your heart, 

then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

~ Shannon L. Alder

We Die to Each Other

“We die to each other daily. 

What we know of other people is 

only our memory of the moments

during which we knew them. 

And they have changed since then. 

To pretend that they and we are the same is a 

useful and convenient social convention 

which must sometimes be broken. 

We must also remember that at every 

meeting we are meeting a stranger.” 

~ T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

I May Not Always Be

“I may not always be with you 

But when we're far apart

Remember you will be with me

Right inside my heart” 

~ Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

I Know My Heart

“I know my heart will never be the same

But I'm telling myself I'll be okay” 

~ Sara Evans

Relationships Are Mysterious

“Relationships are mysterious. 

We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. 

You will say to your partner: do you really love me? 

Are you sure you love me? 

You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. 

But you never ask: are you really mad at me? 

Are you sure you’re angry? 

When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. 

Yet the reverse should be true. 

We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.” 

~ Christopher Pike, Remember Me

A Dame That Knows

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.” 

~ Mae West

If A Girl Starts Out

“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't

tell him that she wants a relationship, 

it will never become a relationship. 

If you give the guy the impression that casual

is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. 

Be straight with him from the start. 

If he gets scared and runs away, 

he wasn't right for you.”

~ Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

Those Sweet Lips

“Those sweet lips. 

My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to those who wait.” 

~ Jess C. Scott, The Intern

I Used to Advertise My Loyalty

“I used to advertise my loyalty 

and I don't believe there is a single person 

I loved that I didn't eventually betray.” 

~ Albert Camus, The Fall

Lots of Things

“Lots of things can be fixed. 

Things can be fixed. 

But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, 

because they should not be fixed. 

You're aboard a ship setting sail, 

and the other person has joined the inland circus, 

or is boarding a different ship, 

and you just can't be with each other anymore.

 Because you shouldn't be.” 

~ C. JoyBell C.

Every Couple

“Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, 

and that’s the thing -- you’re a couple, 

and couples can’t function without trust.” 

~ Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

Relationships

“Relationships don't always make sense. 

Especially from the outside” 

~ Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

Our Wounds

“Our wounds are often the openings into 

the best and most beautiful part of us.” 

~ David Richo

Part of the Problem

“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that

it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear

or walk or do other things that many of us take

for granted. But what of people who can't feel? 

Or talk about their feelings? 

Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? 

What of people who aren't able to form close and strong

relationships? And people who cannot find

fulfillment in their lives, or those who have

lost hope, who live in disappointment and

bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? 

These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” 

~ Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: 

Important Things to Remember

To Say That One Waits a Lifetime

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate

to come around is a paradox. 

People eventually get sick of waiting, 

take a chance on someone, 

and by the art of commitment become soulmates, 

which takes a lifetime to perfect.” 

~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Cheating and Lying

“Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.” 

~ Patti Callahan Henry, Between the Tides

Usually Adult Males

“Usually adult males who are unable to make 

emotional connections with the women they 

choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, 

unable to allow themselves to love for fear that 

the loved one will abandon them. If the first 

woman they passionately loved, the mother, 

was not true to her bond of love, then how can 

they trust that their partner will be true to love. 

Often in their adult relationships these men act out

again and again to test their partner's love. 

While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that 

he can no longer receive his mother's love because 

he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out 

in ways that are unworthy and yet demand 

of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. 

This testing does not heal the wound of the past, 

it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will

become weary of being tested and end the relationship

, thus reenacting the abandonment. 

This drama confirms for many men that they 

cannot put their trust in love. 

They decide that it is better to put their 

faith in being powerful, in being dominant.” 

~ bell hooks

For There to Be Betrayal

“For there to be betrayal, 

there would have to have been trust first.” 

~ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

When You Don't Talk

“When you don't talk, 

there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” 

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

Even Though You May Want

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, 

you may have one foot on the brakes. 

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. 

Release the hurt. 

Release the fear. 

Refuse to entertain your old pain. 

The energy it takes to hang onto the past is

holding you back from a new life. 

What is it you would let go of today?” 

~ Mary Manin Morrissey