Saturday, December 9, 2006

Thought-Provoking Quotations: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!” - John Greenleaf Whittier

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be, yours. If it does not return, it was never yours to begin with. - author unknown

Every day, single adults who are tired of waiting for the perfect match ask themselves, “Is this the best I can do?” Too often, the answer is “You’ll do” rather than “I do.” - Harold Ivan Smith

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. - C.S. Lewis

Resist the temptation to trifle with other people’s feelings. It may be fun to “play fish” like a trout on a fly line, but it is cruel, it is dishonest, and it is dangerous. - Elisabeth Elliot

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. - Dr. James C. Dobson

A relationship isn’t worth repairing if it forces you to compromise your values or undermine your self-respect. - Les & Leslie Parrott

If you love someone so much that you want that person to be happy—even if you are not the one to make him or her happy—then you really love that person. - Ray Short

The freest person in the world is one with an open heart, a broken spirit, and a new direction in which to travel. - Gordon MacDonald

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. - Susan L. Taylor

Is that love I see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? - author unknown

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give— which is everything. - author unknown

The opposite of love is not hate—it is indifference. - author unknown

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” - Erich Fromm

By far the most common reason people stay in an unhappy relationship is this: even a bad relationship can bring a feeling of security—no matter how false it is. - Les & Leslie Parrott

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