How Would Your Life Be Different

“How would your life be different if…

You approached all relationships 

with authenticity and honesty? 

Let today be the day…

You dedicate yourself to building relationships 

on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.”

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

It Can Be Difficult

“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, 

even when our inner wisdom tells us it's time to let go. 

At this point, we can choose to let go 

and endure the intense pain of leaving behind 

the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. 

Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain

 that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, 

like an emotional cancer. 

Until we wake up, one day and realize, 

we are buried so deep in the dysfunction 

of the relationship that we scarcely remember 

who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”

~ Jaeda DeWalt

The More You Talk About It

“The more you talk about it, 

rehash it, 

rethink it, 

cross-analyze it, 

debate it,

 respond to it, 

get paranoid about it, 

compete with it, 

complain about it,

 immortalize it, 

cry over it, 

kick it, 

defame it, 

stalk it,

 gossip about it, 

pray over it, 

put it down, 

or dissect its motives,

 it continues to rot in your brain. 

It is dead. 

It is over.

 It is gone. 

It is done. 

It is time to bury it 

because it is smelling up your life 

and no one wants to be near 

your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. 

Be the funeral director of your life 

and bury that thing!”

~ Shannon L. Alder

I Realized I'm In Love

“I realized I’m in love. 

It's always been right in front of me.”

~ Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Share Your Weaknesses

“Share your weaknesses. 

Share your hard moments. 

Share your real side. 

It'll either scare away every fake person in your life

 or it will inspire them 

to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," 

which will open the doors 

to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.”

~ Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

The Best You Can Hope For

“The best you can hope for in a relationship 

is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. 

It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, 

or someone who is capable of significant change; 

that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.”

~ Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

I Never Hated A Man

“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

One Minute Of Reconciliation

“One minute of reconciliation is worth 

more than a whole life of friendship!”

~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

I Believe The World Is Divided

“I believe the world is divided in three groups: 

givers, takers, and the few that can balance both impulses. 

Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. 

It is the currency of compassion and kindness, 

it is what separates good people from the rest. 

And without it, the world would be a bleak place. 

If you are a giver, it is wise to define your 

boundaries because takers will take what you allow them to; 

all givers must learn to protect that about themselves 

or eventually, there is nothing left to give.”

~ Tiffany Madison

So Many Believe

“So many believe that it is love that grows, 

but it is the knowing that grows 

and love simply expands to contain it.”

~ Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

When You Find A Guy

“When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,

who calls you back when you hang up on him,

who will stand in front of you when others cast stones,

or will stay awake just to watch you sleep,

who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats,

who will hold your hand when you're sick,

who thinks you're pretty without makeup,

the one who turns to his friends and says, ‘that’s her’,

the one that would bear your rejection

because losing you means losing his will to live,

who kisses you when you screw up,

watches the stars and names one for you and

will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…

you marry him all over again.”

~ Shannon Alder

Two Separate Beings

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances,

 face to face in freedom and seeking 

justification of their existence through one another, 

will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." 

~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Tell Me

“Tell me whom you haunt 

and I’ll tell you who you are.”

~ Andre Breton

The Only Real Battle

“The only real battle in life 

is between hanging on and letting go.”

~ Shannon L. Alder

The Desire To Love Someone

“The desire to love someone always exceeds 

the desire to be loved by someone 

& that's exactly why we end up loving 

the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.”

~ Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls