It’s so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn’t guarantee we’ll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.
I’ve been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect “forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.
I wasn’t expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the least he could’ve done was make the bed.
Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.
First off, let’s clear this up—fries are not a side dish and you can’t count those as a vegetable. Sorry.
Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.
There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.
The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.
Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.
You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.
That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.
To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.
Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.
You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.
Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
