over and over again

Maybe our old wounds teach us something.

They remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome.

They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future.

That’s what we like to think.

But that’s not the way it is, is it?

Some things we just have to learn over and over again.

gratitude

Whether you've pushed me or pulled me down...

Drained me or fueled me...

Loved or left me...

Helped or hurt me...

YOU ARE PART OF MY GROWTH.

No kidding!

I thank you. ;)

the one you NEED

God doesn't give you the people you want.

He gives you the people you NEED....

to help you,

to hurt you,

to leave you,

to love you

and to make you into the person

you were meant to be.

just let it go

You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.


When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, it has nothing new to say.

Family isn't always blood.

It's the people in your life who want you in theirs.

The ones who accept you for who you are.

The ones who would do anything to see you smile

and who love you no matter what.

stone-cutter

When nothing seems to help, I look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

-Jacob A. Rii

greatest feeling

The greatest feeling in the world is to be around someone who wants to hold you,

to kiss your forehead,

and to be around you.

Who wants to call you at night,

to see you smile.

But, what’s better than that is finding someone that does it all,

because he wants

to see you happy

Maybe sometimes you have to stop waiting for someone to come along and fix what's wrong.

Maybe you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize that no one else has the answer.

Maybe sometimes you just have to be your own hero.

maybe having a choice...

‎Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

love and drugs

I’ve been in love before. It’s like a narcotic. At first, it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.

won't wait

Why don’t you tell me that

“if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?”

No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Truth about Forever

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells.

They weren't guaranteed or promised.

You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

— Sarah Dessen

The Single-Bullet Theory

Everybody's got one person out there. One bullet. And if you're lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you're shot through the heart, then there's nobody else. No matter what happens -- death, divorce, infidelity, whatever -- nobody else can ever come close.

- Michael Connelly

ex ex ex

An "ex" is called an "ex"


because it's an EX--ample


of what you shouldn't have again


in the future.

contentment

If we allow our relationship to be threatened by someone who can offer us something better, then all of us would be miserable because there could always be better partners than the ones we have now. It eventually becomes a matter of contentment. Let us try to make our relationship work even if at times we lose our interest in it. Being blessed is not always about finding someone new to love but being able to continue to love someone we've always had.

go on

Don't let it break you.

No matter how hard it is.

Life goes on.

South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

-- Haruki Murakami

love the imperfections

You may find your partner boring so you will try to look for someone else, someone new, someone better. then you got a new partner and you realized that the old partner you thought was boring is the best you ever had.

What's the lesson?
LOVE THE IMPERFECTIONS.

someone smiles

You yearn for someone not because you want to be complete.

But because you want to add more color to your life.

That person must not necessarily break through your busy schedules.

That person must inspire you to manage your time well instead.

You see, it's not a matter of distance and time,

it's more like friendship in a higher level.

It's smiling alone every once in a while.

Knowing that somewhere,

somehow,

someone smiles at the thought of you.

not even close

I found the right guy,

gave the perfect love.

It was the right time.


Everything was perfect except for one thing.

For him,

I wasn't the perfect girl

and I wasn't even close to being the right one.