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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“It turns out that playing it safe, at least in matters of the heart, is the most dangerous thing you can do. By that route, you become a butterfly pinned to the wall, with wonderful colors and all kinds of potential but going nowhere. Your wings are clipped. To really fly you must claim the courage to live out of your real self, the one God called into being.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“you can’t really love other people well unless you are at home in your own soul. You will simply be too afraid.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Love Contains Both “Yes” And “No”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“The strength to say “No” is required in order to love well.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Love anything . . . and your heart will be wrung. The more you succeed at love—the more you will have to lose. But honestly, would playing it safe and hedging your bets take you any place you really wanted to be? And as painful as love can be, could wisdom be won by any other means?”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriage, our family, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies.”
― Gary Chapman, Love is a Verb: Stories of What Happens When Love Comes Alive

“although life happens and tragedies ensue, love has the ability to adapt. Somehow love is flexible and strong enough to step up to the challenges it faces. When we encounter distressing situations, love has a deep reservoir we may not see but we can still draw from.”
― Gary Chapman, Love is a Verb: Stories of What Happens When Love Comes Alive

“Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.”
― Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul