#settling

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. ↗

— Edward Norton

#all things #always #appeals #broadest #denominator

His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.  ↗

— Freya North

#versions-of-love #love

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#relationships #settling #solitude #love

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#love #relationships #settling #love

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#around #become #choices #comfortable #doing

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #life #loving-your-life #loving-yourself #not-settling

If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#life

Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#finding-yourself #happily-single #happiness #happy #holding-out-for-the-best

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #finding-yourself #fresh-starts #letting-go

The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #love #mr-right #not-settling #relationships