If you will love someone more than they deserve, expect you'll be hurt more than you deserve.
When a person rejects the love that is offered to them often it is because they are on guard and don't believe that they deserve that they are given. Many times the love we could receive is certainly more monumental than we love we allow to filter into our lives because we are attempting to protect ourselves from being hurt.
I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Sometimes we have to be willing to let go of the relationships that do us much more harm than good. Too many times we work so hard in life to only be discouraged and told by others that we should be grateful for even having them in our own lives. I would much rather be alone than deal with someone who makes me not want to feel loved.
If you leave someone for another person, don't be surprised if that person leaves you for someone else.
Some people just like to have their cake and they like to eat it too. Never make someone a priority that is only choosing to make you an option. You are better than that! You are a unique soul, a temple of righteousness, and a miracle of the almighty. Your life on Earth is limited and it is because of this that you shouldn't waste your time by giving it to others who have no desire to return it in an equal manner.
If you love someone, tell him or her. Forget about the rules or the fear of looking ridiculous. What is truly ridiculous is passing up on an opportunity to tell someone that your heart is invested in him or her.
Life is full of opportunity, if we don't seize the ones that we know our hearts want us to, then what exactly are we doing? We have to let our pride and ego in many instances in life, especially when it relates to showing our feelings to someone that we care about. We never really know what a person may say when we tell them that we love them, but we can't let that hold us back.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
We have to learn to leave alone the people who will bring nothing more to our lives than torment. Sometimes we go through life, and we meet people that we establish connections with before or after we know that they probably aren't the best people for us to connect with, and continue to live our lives with them trying to turn them into who we want them to be.
Everybody knows how to love, but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.
Loving one person forever is a goal that we all aim to do, or at least it should be. Love is something that is given with the intent to never be broken or destroyed. Just because you know how to start a love, doesn't mean that you know how to stay with a person you love forever. When we love someone we have to be willing to love them forever. Love isn't something that endures for a while, love endures forever.
Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you.
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in life is to lose ourselves in a relationship by trying to become someone that other people want us to be. If you have to change who you are to make a relationship work, your relationship will fail anyway. Either you wont really be happy inside of it, because you can't think or act as yourself, or the other person you are trying to appease wont be happy because you aren't enough of the person that they want you to be.
People who are attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won't be by your side forever. But the people who can see how beautiful your heart is will never leave you.
Be careful of those who are only with you because of what they see on the outside. Sometimes people get caught up in the fact of someone looking good and smelling good, while those who know better know that there is much more to a person than what meets the eye. Take time to get to really know who someone is before you start telling yourself that you are really interested in them, or that you really care about them.
Find a heart that will love you at your worst, and arms that will hold you at your weakest.
Everyone grows up with their own beliefs and their own perceptions of what a true love really is. We will have all types of influences, including relationships we see our families and friends involved in, movies, tv shows, and other places as well. There are so many different things that we see, and so many unsuccessful relationships in this world nowadays that many of us are lost when it comes to making a successful and lasting relationship with someone that we really love.
