QUOTES ON DATING If she’s not your first and last thought of the day, let her go. She deserves better. --Dinesh Kumar Biran Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart. —Denzel Washington One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. —Vincent Van Gogh I’ve been single for a while and I have to say, it’s going very well. I think I might be the one. —Rebel Circus O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson Go and love someone exactly as they are and then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered. —Wes Angelozzi You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. —Anne Lamott - 1" - If you ever fall in love, fall in love with someone who wants to know your favorite color and just how you like your coffee. Fall in love with someone who loves the way you laugh and would do absolutely anything to hear it. Fall in love with someone who puts their head on your chest just to hear your heart beat. Fall in love with someone who kisses you in public and is proud to show you off to anyone they know. Fall in love with someone who makes you question why you were afraid to fall in love in the first place. Fall in love with someone who would never ever want to hurt you. Fall in love with someone who falls in love with your flaws and thinks you are perfect just the way you are. Fall in love with someone who thinks that you are the ONE they would love to wake up to each day. —simplereminders.com Courtship—The period during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. —Unknown Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. —Arthur Conan Doyle We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between: A man that flatters her, and a man who complements her; A man who spends money on her, and a man who invests in her; A man who views her as property, and a man who views her properly; A man who lusts after her, and a man who loves her; A man who believes he’s a gift to women, and a man who believes she’s a gift to him. And we need to teach our sons to be that kind of man. —Internet Meme To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint. --Josh Billings It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. --Arab Proverb What does it tell you about the intensity of admiration for the opposite sex when boys are called ‘girl watchers’ and girls are called ‘boy crazy?’ --Dan L. Miller - 2" - There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton I think people still want to marry rich. Girls especially...It’s simple. Don’t date poor boys. Go where the rich are...You don’t have to be rich to go where they go. --Sheilah Graham You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. --Erica Jong The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters—any one will do. --J. Ogden Armour This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes. --William Makepeace Thackeray If you want to know how she will talk to you after marriage, listen while she talks to her younger brothers. --Unknown There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man. --Ed Howe Don’t go looking for the ideal man. A husband is much easier to find. --Unknown If you can’t get someone off your mind, they are probably supposed to be there. —Ellen Ingrid Barksten The worst feeling you’ll ever feel is sitting next to the person who means the world to you knowing that you mean nothing to them. --Unknown Anyone can make you smile or cry, but it takes someone special to make you smile when you already have tears in your eyes. --Unknown - 3" - Females are still programmed to look for older men with resources, while males are still programmed to look for younger women with adoring gazes. --Maureen Dowd Don’t marry him until you see how he treats the waitress. --Connie Schultz Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. —Leo Buscaglia Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Smart women can’t (shouldn’t) marry men who aren’t at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a vey limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again—you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you. --Susan Patton How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. —Victor Hugo Kiss me and you will see how important I am. —Sylvia Plath One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together. —Unknown Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. —Mandy Hale Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. —Steve Maraboli Raise your son to be a gentleman. Raise your daughter to accept nothing less. —Ged Backland - 4" - If your boyfriend/husband ever says anything rude or disrespectful to you, tell him to write it down on a piece of paper, get in his car, drive, and deliver it to his mother or simply hand it to his daughter. If he can’t say it to his mother, or doesn’t want another man to one day say it to his daughter, he shouldn’t be saying it to you. —Internet Meme Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you. —Joseph Simmons Surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you. —quotesonly.net If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote. —Stefan Molyneux I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. —Martha Gellhorn It was just a quick touch of his lips and it left her breathless, as always. In that moment his kiss infuriated her. This was only supposed to happen in the movies! It was a feeling designed by books! She wasn’t supposed to feel her lungs seize and butterflies were not supposed to run rampant in her stomach, just because a man pressed his lips to her lips. —Arielle Hudson The most important career decision you’re going to make is whether or not you have a life partner and who that partner is. --Sheryl Sandberg Do not date, sleep with or marry a man unless you would be proud to have a son exactly like him. —Herina Ayot You don’t find your worth in a man. You find your worth within yourself and then find a man who’s worthy of you. —Kamari aka Lyrikal Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do. —David Wilkerson - 5" - Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek it. —D. H. Lawrence Could singlehood be, rather than a state of emergency or a problem that had to be solved, a positive life choice? Is a single person always the unmatched half of something, or could he or she be complete as is? --Marion Winik When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them. —Mark W. Boyer Prison guard to a woman on Death Row: ‘What would you like for your last meal?’ Woman: ‘I don’t know. What would you like?’ —Internet Meme I know you’re scared of being alone the rest of your life, but you can handle solitude.