Don’t allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.
Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn’t, wouldn’t rely on anyone else ever again.
As a kid I can remember my mother telling me that our lives are merely a reflection of what we see and do. If we are kind, others will treat us with kindness. If we love, we will be loved. If we care, we will be cared for.
Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges.
Marriage is one of the most important decisions in anyone’s life, so it should be deeply felt decision. It should feel inevitable. It’s the union of two lives, after all. So you can’t simply check your watch and announce ’it’s time.
Men have a hard time just dealing with a simple cold. If God had left procreation up to the male of the species, humanity would’ve died out with Adam.
There’s more to life than work and more work.
Remember that you need two socks. How to achieve this feat? Knit both at the same time, and release the idea that they need to be identical!
What a shame that he pushed people and relationships away. With a personality transplant he would have the potential to be more than eye candy.
They hadn’t been married long and she hated to disillusion him so soon. Once he met the family, he might well have serious doubts about her, and the truth was, she wouldn’t blame him.
She doesn’t understand that some things need to be believed in.
When you put beads in your knitting, you are really putting bits of light in your knitting. The gleam and color-play of beads add a whole other dimension that could be demure or outrageous, as you please. Your choice of beads and yarn uniquely expresses your personality. – Sivia Harding, designer and teacher.
I once read that during the Civil War women of the south would soak these cloth buttons in perfume and then sew them into the collars of their men’s shirts. That way the scent was a constant reminder of their loved ones waiting for them at home.
Think about it. Everything of value in life involves risk.
We were very different people outwardly but we shared the same core values and beliefs.
I wish I knew what it is you do to me.” She sensed that it troubled him that she could break through that facade of his. She was beginning to understand this man. She was physically handicapped, but Nash was crippled, too. He didn’t want love, but he couldn’t keep himself from needing it, from caring about her, and that worried him. It worried her, too.
Women are more sensitive than men.
I feel as if I’m on an emotional roller coaster. One moment I’m feeling as low as I can get, and the next I’m soaring into the clouds. Just now, I’m in the cloud phase.
Oftentimes when God works, what happens makes no sense. It will all come together down the road. Trust me on this.
She kept thinking about their meal at Zorba’s. The recipes were the same as they’d been years ago, but the experience wasn’t.