How Could You Love Us Being Together?

“How could you love us being together?" he asked me. 

"We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other 

and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" 

So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, 

that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. 

But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. 

We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. 

I love us together this way just like this. 

Because even if it's no good,

 it's what we have!

 It's us.”

~ C. JoyBell C.

Intimacy

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. 

We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. 

Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. 

Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? 

The one thing we can be certain of is that 

if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, 

we will not come out unaffected.”

~ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Sometimes

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

~ Robert M. Drake

I Believe With All My Heart

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, 

that we are our own best friends and best company, 

and that if you're not right for yourself, 

it's impossible to be right for anyone.”

~ Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: 

One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, 

Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

He Knew Me

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: 

the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

~ Justina Chen Headley

I've Heard

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations 

because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. 

It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. 

Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, 

and he will stay until he is boiled to death. 

Us frogs understand this.”

~ Deb Caletti, Stay

Be Sure

“Be sure it's your real self you're showing. 

Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.”

~ Daphne Rose Kingma, Finding True Love: 

The 4 Essential Keys to Bring You the Love of Your Life

If You Have The Woman You Love

“If you have the woman you love, 

what more do you need? 

Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.”

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. 

Specifically Ages 19-91.

Life

Life contains but two tragedies. 

One is not to get your heart’s desire; 

the other is to get it.”

~ Socrates

Ultimately The Bond Of All Companionship

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, 

whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, 

and conversation must have a common basis, 

and between two people of widely different 

culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

~ Oscar Wilde

Single Is No Longer A Lack Of Options

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. 

A choice to refuse to let your life be defined 

by your relationship status but to live every day 

Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”

~ Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: 

Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

My Wife And I

“My wife and I just don't have the same 

feelings for each other we used to have. 

I guess I just don't love her anymore 

and she doesn't love me. What can i do?"

"The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked.

"That's right," he reaffirmed. "And we 

have three children we're really 

concerned about. What do you suggest?"

"love her," I replied.

"I told you, the feeling just isn't there anymore."

"Love her."

"You don't understand. the feeling of love just isn't there."

"Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, 

that's a good reason to love her."

"But how do you love when you don't love?"

"My friend, love is a verb. 

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. 

So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. 

Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. 

Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”

~ Stephen R. Covey,

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

He May Love You

“..he may love you, he may miss you,

 but ultimately he's just not that into you.”

~ Greg Behrendt, 

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Everything You Want In Life

“Everything you want in life is a relationship away.”

~ Idowu Koyenikan,

  Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

Love Lasts ABout Seven Years

“Love lasts about seven years.

 That's how long it takes for the cells 

of the body to totally replace themselves.”

~ Francois Sagan