In a narcissist’s world you are not their one and only. You are an extension of that person and last place in their mind, while they secure back up narcissistic supply.
The day your soul has died is the day you don’t care about anyone’s pain, unless it builds you up or makes you richer.
Having dignity doesn’t require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won’t allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation.
Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.
Doing evil to another person doesn’t prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.
Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don’t ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don’t have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don’t have options that make them stay comfortable. You won’t grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.
If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can’t read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.
The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can’t see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you spend your life with someone that can’t tell the difference between a diamond and dirt?
People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.
Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!
You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.
You will learn how much someone loved you, by how quickly they dismiss you.
Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.
The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.
What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.