"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy 

"Don't take a good woman for granted. Someday someone will come along and appreciate what you didn't." ♥

"Knowing that Love is the strongest force in the universe. It can be used to create anything in your world. You can only find the answers you seek in life in this place, your heart. It is the truth, freedom and happiness you seek. It erases all illusions and brings you to a new world of peace and union. It is the essence of Pure Light which has no distortions."
~Unknown

"Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman."
-- Robert Brault

"A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"You may be only one person in this world, but to one, you are the world"

-Unknown

"There’s no need to miss someone from your past- There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future” 
~Unknown

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
~Albert Schweitzer

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."
~Unknown

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”
~Michael Cibenko

"If it is meant to be, our hearts will find each other when we meet. And if our hearts melt together so will our bodies and souls. Then every word and every touch will fuel our passion flame. I will be yours, you will be mine, and we will be one."
~Unknown

'The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it's not because they forget, it's because they forgive."
from the movie."
~"Indecent Proposal"

"May we see with our hearts today, seeing & honoring the sacred essence in each person we encounter - and in the one we see in the mirror."
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"A relationship is a two way street. It's never all your fault or the other persons. You go into the relationship together and work through it all together."
~Unknown

"To love someone is to understand each other, to laugh together, to smile with your heart and to trust one another. One important thing is to let each other go if you can't do this."
-Source Unknown

"Love is like a golden chain that link our hearts together and if you ever break that chain, you'll break my heart forever."
-Source Unknown

Time is only a four-letter word. Although we have to be apart, time cannot take you from my heart. I sit and I wait until we are together again, and make 'our time' with a fresh new start!"
-Source Unknown

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy. It is often filled with anger and tears. It is when you want to be together despite it all. That is when you are truly in love."
-Source Unknown

And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together ... Somewhere out there, out where dreams, come true.
-from the movie, "An American Tale

"If I were to rearrange the alphabet, I'd put, 'U' and 'I' together."
~Unknown

"Love can tear you apart... it can kill you. But if you’re lucky, it can put you back together."
-Source Unknown

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
- Jacob M. Braude

"Your level of optimism is determined by how you explain things to yourself. Think positively."  ~Brian Tracy

"I was worthless, until I decided to be worth more." 
~Kim Jeffery

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears. 
-Laird Hamilton

"Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Life is to short to be anything but short.
~Unknown

"Failure is not the opposite of success but part if it."
~Unknown

"Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth." 
-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Sometimes the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross, and which one to burn."
—David Russel

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
~Unknown

"When life fails you, don't you have that special one person that keeps you hanging in there? And if you don't, maybe you're that person for someone else. So, when the world turns its back on you and you're ready to surrender, please just remember that you're not just fighting for yourself ... but for that someone too, because once you're gone nothing is keeping them from disappearing too."
~Source Unknown

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Dream as big as you want to, but don't let anyone or anything stop you."
~Source Unknown

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all."
 ~Emily Dickinson

"When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

"God only makes happy endings. If it's not happy, then it's not the end!"
~Source Unknown

"The only restriction is the limitation in your beliefs that prevents you from breaking free from self-made imprisonment."  
~Doreen Virtue

"I wish that you were here or that I were there, or that we were together anywhere!
~Unknown

"If it is meant to be, our hearts will find each other when we meet. And if our hearts melt together so will our bodies and souls. Then every word and every touch will fuel our passion flame. I will be yours, you will be mine, and we will be one."
~Unknown

"I really hope he calls today, so I can hang up on him."
 Ally McBeal

"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself."
~ Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity."
— Wayne W. Dyer

"Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy."
— Erol Ozan

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
Buddha

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness".
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
Mother Teresa

"Everybody has a PURPOSE in LIFE...even if its just to serve as a REALLY bad example."(LOL)
♥

"Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Love is a function of communication.
Health is a function of participation.
Self expression is a function of responsibility."
~ Werner Erhard,

"Anger: Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
~ Frederick Buechner

"It's never what people do that make us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did."
~ Marshall Rosenberg

"Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." ~Buddha

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space"
~ Johnny Cash

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”  ~Alexander Graham Bell

"True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”
~Unknown

"Every day we have the opportunity to explore the limits of what we know, or...to create something beyond what we know and who we've been, expressing ourselves fully, challenging existing assumptions, re-inventing the mold...being a YES."