Remember, as adults, we don?t need to always get our way, but we do need to feel heard and genuinely considered.
— Crismarie Campbell, The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.
— Marilyn Suttle
If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o?clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they?ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
— Marlen Komar, Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.
— Janet Crain
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it’s presence, for love. never. dies.
— Solange nicole
I think when we love people we offer them the opportunity to break the barriers that prevent them from finding the love they deserve.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Where You’ll Land
Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
What if every moment of conflict is a chance to make your relationship even stronger?
— Crismarie Campbell, The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship