"I learned...Never be with someone who doesn`t love you as much as you love him. If he loves you the way you can love, you will find true happiness and a long-term companion.
I once loved a man more than he loved me. His smile was my smile, his dream was my dream, and his wants were what I strived to provide for him. What I looked for was not his concern, what I craved was only my hope, and what I needed was for me to find.
I tried and pleaded, waited and wished, but all I could get was the temporary feeling of fulfillment when he gave me attention. For myself, I lost the confidence and self-respect I once had. My happiness was based on his response; positive I was happy, negative I was crushed. My days were filled with anxiety of will he ever truly love me?
I finally needed to know. I needed to be the person I once knew myself to be... I swallowed my fear and asked for an answer. I was a game, I was a temporary cure to lonliness and I was available. It hit me hard but it hit me well. I picked myself up and told myself this would never happen again."
-"The more we know, the better we forgive,
Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live."
-Madame de Stael
"When the tears are on the outside,
The inside is healing , and "It takes a
strong man to cry".
"There are high spots in all of our lives
and most of them come about through
encouragement from someone else."
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience by which you really stop to
look fear in the face. You are able to say to
yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can
take the next thing that comes along".
-Elanor Roosevelt
"The journey in between what you once were
and who you are now becoming is where the
dance of life really takes place."
"People are always blaming their circumstances
for who they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for this circumstances
they want,and, if they can't find them,
they make them."
