When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.
It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.
People’s behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world’s version of insanity.
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.
Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.
Don’t ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.
The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don’t care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.
If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?
Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people’s misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.
A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.
In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.
Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, “I want to know why!
Realize that narcissists have an addiction disorder. They are strongly addicted to feeling significant. Like any addict they will do whatever it takes to get this feeling often. That is why they are manipulative and future fakers. They promise change, but can’t deliver if it interferes with their addiction. That is why they secure back up supply.
You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.
Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.
If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.
There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.
Don’t talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.