I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
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Scott Turow
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.
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Stefan Zweig
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
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Haruki Murakami
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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Paulo Coelho
More Quotes By John Ortberg
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere. We believe and we...
