For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways – for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask...

Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on how you respond. Faith does not need your emotions to confirm what you...

So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal theloss, no matter how important the thing that’s stolen from us – that’ssnatched right out of our hands – even if we...

During the year of 2015 stay grounded. How? Each night before you go to sleep, write a word/expression capturing a positive state of mind on a sheet of paper. Fold the paper in a V...

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don’t you think so?

I take in his smooth cheeks, his rough chin and jaw, the developing wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.’We fall in love with somebody who maybe seems like a bad match,’ Tully says, ‘and...

When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There...

His statement flew in the face of everything I knew. He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that could only be cut into so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was...

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

The One.” Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun.

What I want to impart through our correspondence is that no matter what anyone may be going through, here’s the thing: If you love each other, and if your relationship is worth the pain or...

That was the problem these days–everything was considered disposable–clothes, cell phones, relationships.

A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. 🙂

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting...

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn’t he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because...

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, ‘You’re very good at lying.”Do I look like...

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Look for the positive qualities in your client’s negative behavior.

A judgment with an evil design comes about when we compare a person to our pre-conceived beliefs about what is right or wrong and then condemn that person.

To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey towards becoming A Proverbs 31...

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn’t know what was at stake to lose, you...

I had to free myself from my devotion to him… to us… without losing my ability to believe in love.

North is a powerful man, and you’re still connected to him.” Flo frowned. “Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you’re a Fish. You’ll end up back...

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Erkeklere hayran olma. Anladın mı? Çünkü senden fazlaları oldukları için değil, aksine, senden bir kadın olarak korumanı beklenen erdemlerden arındıkları ve senden çok çok daha azı oldukları için, kıvılcımlar çıkaran bir meteor gibi düşüyorlar yeryüzüne....

You’re walking funny,” Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.”You’re just jealous.” Brenna pushed through the...

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together became crowded with...

The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You...

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.

I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I’d like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I’d like you to say I’m worth it.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so ‘special.

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true...

I did what I could,I tried to stay away,I told myself that I don’t need you,I don’t need to feel this way,But soon I realized that I am just a fishAlways falling as you’re prey

…we’ve told men for so long that we’re equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they’re afraid to offer in case we accuse them of...

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

…we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for...

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn’t let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they’d run their fingers around the...

Two kisses, my first year at Yale, after we ran into each other at a party and he walked me back to the dorm. It was nice. Very nice. But as exceptional a kisser as...

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she’d never thought of, to show...

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.

Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?