#set

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#disaster #disasters #earthquake #forge #insight

Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me... ↗

— Heather James

#inspiring #inspiring-mums #mindset #motivating #self-care

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#love #relationships #settling #love

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#everlasting-love #eye #false-love #heart #pain

The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say – they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation – yes, honey, okay, honey – is the same as concord. He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked. Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don’t land me in one of those relationships where we’re always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and ‘playfully’ scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about. Those awful if only relationships: This marriage would be great if only… and you sense the if only list is a lot longer than either of them realizes. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#marriage

Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it —he’s a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting. ↗

— Brenda Joyce

#love #marriage #sunset #love

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#marriage #w-somerset-maugham #marriage

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. ↗

— Matt Mitchell

#advice-for-daily-living #believe #bravery #inspiration #love

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#romantic #sunset #vegas-vampires #romantic