Never seek to force love. You can try but you’ll find fear,
neediness and insecurity, not love. Love will come if you’re
willing to share love, to give of it freely and to expect nothing in return.
~wikiHow
The idea of romantic love is often fueled by fantasies and much of the romantic love shown in movies and romance novels is unrealistic and causes real mortals to feel inadequate. Be aware that creatively written or filmed romantic love is a thing of art in its own––mere mortals are recommended to see that romantic love has warts. The more expansively you view romantic love, the more accepting you are that romantic love isn’t always ideal and the more certain you are about who you are and what matters to you in life, the more likely you’ll be to find happiness in romance. Leave those rose colored glasses slightly lifted at all times! ~wikiHow
A good, loving relationship is one where you constantly challenge each other to be better people. Help the other person to achieve their dreams and goals because you believe they deserve it. Improve yourself and work for your dreams so that you can be the person you feel they deserve. We should be better people because of the relationships that we have, and this is the way to do it.
Bad things will happen in your relationships. You’ll say the wrong thing, or they’ll hurt your feelings. It happens. The important part, when anything goes wrong (even if it’s just problems in your life), is to learn your lessons and just keep moving forward. Try to make the most of any negative situation, turning it into something positive by gaining and growing from the experience.
If you’re in the wrong, apologize and own up to your mistake. Good relationships air out the grievances and clear the air. Bad relationships hide the negativity and let it fester into serious problems. If you’re in love, talk about your problems.
Eliminate jealousy. This is one of the unhealthiest things to have in a relationship, as it can break down trust and respect, and create barriers. For some people, this can be the most challenging part of relationships. Jealousy is a tough thing to break, but you can do it. The most important thing to understand is that jealousy issues almost always come from within, from the jealous person’s own issues, so those need to be worked through first. This is a place where those communication skills come in handy.
We hate to be wrong. Everyone does. But the thing about everyone thinking they’re right is that someone HAS to be wrong. If we disagree on an issue, we’re bound to be wrong on at least part of the issue. You’ll have much stronger relationships if you learn to talk things out with the other person, see their point of view, and find somewhere in the middle where you can meet and agree.
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A loved one is the person who understands your happiness and the person who can guess your sadness before your eyes feel.
Love is expressed as an action and experienced as a feeling. Yet,
love has an essence that resists defining in any single way — it
encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support,
faith, and much more.
A life partner or a lover can help
you cope with the problems in your life and will work with you to solve
them, but no one is going to make those problems just go away but you.
You have to rescue yourself. Be your own knight-in-shining-armor.
Expecting someone else to do that for you will only result in putting
way too much pressure on them and disappointing yourself in the long
run.
Don’t force love and don’t try to speed it up. This
will only create false feelings which drain you emotionally and leave
you feeling empty and unsatisfied. You can’t rush love. But believe that
it will come because it most certainly will. You just have to find the
right person.
Don’t put on an act with people you’re interested in, or with friends that you’re building a relationship with. If you’re pretending to be one way, it’s not fair to the person who meets you halfway. Be yourself all the time, and you’ll be confident that the people you meet are worthy of loving you, because it’ll be the real you. Source: wikiHow
Tolerance is the Highest Degree of your Strength,
And desire to take Revenge is the First Sign of Weakness…
~Unknown
The garden is where you take the time in your life to tune in and listen.
It just takes being still long enough, opening your heart, opening
your spirit up to what the plants have to tell you.
~Gabriel Howearth
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~Joseph Addison
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AP, 09/08/2014 12:48 am EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — Molly Glynn, an accomplished Chicago theater actress who also played a recurring role as a doctor on the TV series “Chicago Fire,” has died after a tree toppled by a powerful storm struck her as she rode her bike in a forest park. She was 46.
Glynn was with her husband, Joe Foust, when the storm rolled quickly into the area, just north of Chicago, the executive director of First Folio Theatre and a close family friend, David Rice, said Sunday.
“Molly was one of the most loving and generous people in the Chicago theater scene,” he said. “She was incredibly talented — incredibly versatile. She could handle both comedy and the deepest darkest, dramas.”
Glynn’s husband called 911 just before 4 p.m. on Friday to say his wife had been injured, Cook County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said. NorthShore Evanston Hospital spokeswoman Colette Urban confirmed Glynn died Saturday.
Glynn had an audition earlier in the day Friday and she and her husband had decided to go for a ride. The inclement weather took them by surprise and the tree slammed into Glynn as the couple sought to ride to safety, Rice said.
“It was a freak accident and a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.
Others in the theater community in and around Chicago also expressed shock and sadness.
“It is an incalculable loss,” said Michael Halberstam, the artistic director of the Glencoe-based Writers Theatre. “She was a loving mother and wife and everyone who met her fell in love with her.”
Glynn grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, Rice said. In addition to her husband, she is also survived by two teenage sons.
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun,
Radiance of moon,
Splendour of fire.
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of wind,
Depth of sea,
Stability of earth,
Firmness of rock.
~Saint Patrick
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Too many people today are stuck in the past, or dwell on the future. Both of these just waste your time, not letting you live in the moment. Whether you’ve been through a difficult time or see the past as “the good old’ days”, this article shows you how to just move on in general.
Past
1. Motivate yourself to quit looking back. The only way to move forward is to face forward.
2. Think about your road of life. If you’re always looking in the rear-view mirror, do you know where you’re going on a curvy road?
3. Know that ‘better things’ are ahead, even if the precise nature of these things is hard to predict.
4. Don’t be discouraged. Sometimes, people will shove you out, or you will somehow be forced out of that past. That’s the door of the past slamming in your face telling you desperately to move on.
Future
1. Stop and think. Can you really control the future?
2. Nothing happens by accident. Also worded as “everything happens for a reason.” So why should you doubt? What happens, happens.
3. That bigger and better door isn’t ready for you to burst through just yet. Don’t be the child taking on the adult. You haven’t grown in the present all the way.
Enjoy it! There’s only going to be one day like the one you are living today. Each day is precious, and as you grow, time just goes faster. You never know when you will pass away, so live each day to the fullest.
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