Perfectly ImperfectWe have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them...

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the ‘could’ve’ and ‘should’ve,’ to the dead friendships you still hang on to… Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”Percy didn’t want...

One of the most astounding dynamics in human relationships is how the unconscious intuition of our brain’s right hemisphere is able to act as radar to find us just the right person to provoke and...

Stay alert! Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior… They can say all the right things, they can make you feel things you’ve never felt before, but don’t be fooled; their actions will...

Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it.

How many men do you personally know whom you would typically classify as Kind, Gentle and Loving…I’m guessing the list is not very long. Now think of the women whose lives are characterized by those...

You realize you’ve forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don’t speak bad about them anymore, even if you’re encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of...

He handed the dust pan and brush over. I knew they wouldn’t be much use in cleaning the floor. I also knew the real reason he had given them to me: so he could look...

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you.

You don’t have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn’t see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else’s hands.

~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.~Is he?~All boys are.~More than girls?~Very likely. Wise...

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it’s time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving...

A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light...

I’ve wrestled an alligator before. It wasn’t alive, but I still pinned it down. I was trying to impress a woman, and I bet I did, because she went home with another man—but she was...

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

When I say ‘I won’t hurt you’, it’s a promise, which can and will be kept but it does not come from me without a breakdown of what it means.It does not mean we will...

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

I love you” the whole way, but you couldn’t hear me, probably because that man you were with was talking the whole time.

Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” – Colleen O’Brien

Aku hanya mencemaskan kesehatan Anda. Anda tak berhak menilaiku berdasarkan tindakan yang kuperbuat jika itu semua kulakukan demi Anda. Anda tak tahu kan, berapa banyak peraturan tak tertulis di sini yang sudah aku langgar untuk...

Are you sure? I mean, I don’t understand how this could have happened. She’s only fifteen; I didn’t even know she was sexually active.” Mallory’s father, normally in control, was on the verge of tears....

Sometimes I worry about how attached I am to this dog. About the fact that the primary relationship of my life is with a canine. That at the end of a terrible day I look...

That night when we made love, she saw a side of me she’d never seen—the left side.

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

I just broke up with my girlfriend. My wife will be pleased. But first she’ll be displeased, because she didn’t know I had a girlfriend.

I won’t bring you a single rose to be romantic, but I will point out that our relationship itself is the rose, and it’s our goal to see that it blossoms.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Change is threatening to the status quo.

To me, a good friend is one who doesn’t talk, but who listens all the time. Someone who is observant. Someone who wiretaps your phone lines. I consider myself a good friend.

God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they’ve loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to...

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human...

Diversity is like a buffet, only with people. That’s why I like associating with individuals who are as close to macaroni and cheese as humanly possible.

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over the world full of...

She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot,...