only the best for the best

"We accept the love we think we deserve." -Stephen Chbosky




"Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it."  -D. H. Lawrence




“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” -unknown




“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”   
- Erica Jong




“Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it”   - Brian Cramer




“True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.”  -Julia Roberts




“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it.      - Richard Bach

Marilyn quotes never get old

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

 

"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
— Marilyn Monroe

 "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?"
— Marilyn Monroe

Control

"You must admit you have self-control before you can use it."  ~Carrie Latet




“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.”   -Dr. Robert Anthony




“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.” -unknown




“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”   -Benjamin Franklin




"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."  -Barbara de Angelis 

love quotes: light on the sappy, heavy on the truth

"I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon."  ~Author Unknown




"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."  ~Author Unknown




“Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.” -author unknown




“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat




“True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.”  -author unknown




“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”   -Swedish proverb 










“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”  - Merle Shain 




“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”   -William Sloan Coffin

everyone has a bad day once in a while...

Here's to hoping tomorrow is better!




Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.  ~Garrison Keillor




He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche





It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant




I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.  I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~Dr. Seuss




The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln 

Patience: I need to work on this...

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope”   - Alexandre Dumas Père




"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."  ~John Quincy Adams




"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."  -Margaret Thatcher






"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."  -Richard Rybolt




"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
Laurence J. Peter 




"He that can have patience can have what he will."
Benjamin Franklin