This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past.
But I am learning that perfection isn’t what matters. In fact, it’s the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
It’s like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it’s sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they’ve missed in your life. In the world.
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
It’s the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...
What every girl dreams of when she’s dumped is – that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.
He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It’s a choice.
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
People generally didn’t cheat in good relationships.
A son is a son ’til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
Life’s not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.