You can’t make someone love you or make someone stay. If you develop self-esteem, spiritual discernment, and “a life”, you won’t find yourself making someone else responsible for your happiness or responsible for your pain. Manipulation, control, jealousy, neediness, and selfishness are not the ingredients of a thriving, healthy, loving and lasting relationship.

Growth is important. Grow together, not away from each other, giving each other space to grow without feeling insecure. Allow your mate to have outside interest. You can’t always be together. Give each other a sense of belonging and assurances of commitment. Don’t try to control one another. If these qualities are missing, the relationship will erode as resentment, withdrawal, abuse, neglect, dishonesty, and pain replace the passion.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

• “Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply.“ ~ St. Francis de Sales

• “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.” – Prov. 3:5-6.

• “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” - Jeremiah 29:11

• “If we lose something, we lose it for a reason. That reason might be hard to understand, but whatever it is.. we just have to believe that God takes away when he has something better to give!”

• “Don’t run ahead of God, let Him direct your steps. He has plans and He has time. God’s clock is never early nor late. It always strikes on TIME.”

• “I don’t rush into falling in love, for love never runs out! Even if they mock me coz I’m single, I just tell them, “God is just busy writing the best love story for me.”

• “Many people think I’m strong because of the hurtful struggles I’ve been, the problems I’ve encountered, the pain I’ve felt. But they’re wrong ’cause inside me is a weak heart, but behind it… is a strong GOD.”

• Problems force us to look to God and depend on Him instead of ourselves. You’ll never know that God is all you need until God is all you’ve got.

• In trying times, don’t quit trying. Never give up! Pray. It works!

• Sometimes, you have to fight for something to make everything all right. You give your best and you give your all. Yet, you still lose. But if ever you get tired, tell Jesus. He’ll take the fight, and win it for you.
  

• God said, “If you’ve never felt pain, how would you know I’m a healer? If you’ve never felt sadness, how would you know I’m a comforter? If you never were broken, then how would know that I can make you whole? If I never corrected you, how would you know that I love you? Child, if life is perfect, would you still know me?”