quotes

These are some quotes that have resounded with me lately..

"If you can't love me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"

"Expectation is the root of most heartache."

"Unfortunately, sometimes the truth makes everything else a lie."

"Sometimes when you give up on someone, it's not because you don't care anymore but because you realize they don't."

"At the end of the day you can either focus on what's tearing you apart or what's keeping you together."

"The greatest challenge in life is to find someone who knows all your flaws, differences, and mistakes & yet still sees the best in you."

"If you're convinced you're not good enough, you'll have a hard time letting someone into your life that thinks you are."

"Love doesn't require you to be perfect but it does require you to forgive."

"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults.

When you love someone, you love them with their faults"

"We are not the same persons this year as last;

nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a changed person"

"If you have reasons for loving someone,

then you are using your mind, but if you
love someone for no reason,
then you are using your heart"

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the

divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is
measured by fullness, not by reception"

"Patience with others is Love,

Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith"

"Your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment."

"Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another.. freedom to be who they are with full acceptance"

"Lovers don't meet somewhere along the way, they're in one another's soul from the beginning"

"Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less"

"I must conquer my loneliness without anyone's help save God. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love..."