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Each day is a gift from God. \~ Lynn Shapiro** ### When people criticize you in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-people-criticize-you-in-life/ Last updated: 2026-03-28T02:30:44.000Z **This doesn't mean we need negative people in our life to bring us down, but sometimes just we need someone to give us a wake up call when heading the wrong direction. \~ Aram Chavarria** **No matter what happened, follow your dreams, even though others stop you never, never give up.** **Stick with people who make you happy and don't play games. Choose people wisely. I know the people that I want in my life. \~ Leslie Heggli** **Haters are like vultures they wait to attack.** ### Stop focusing on how stressed you are URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-focusing-on-how-stressed-you-are/ Last updated: 2026-03-26T02:30:56.000Z Life is stress mollified by joy and good health. There's a blessing in every breath you take. Go on vacation! Go find your happy place. Whatever you are going through be strong it will pass. ### When someone leaves your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-leaves-your-life/ Last updated: 2026-03-24T02:30:27.000Z **When you lose your money you lost nothing. When you lose your health you lost something. When you lose yourself you have lost everything.** **There is only three right persons in my experienced life, those are - Me, Myself and I. \~ Damir Karavlah** ### Sometimes letting go doesn't mean there's absence of love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-letting-go-doesnt-mean-theres-absence-of-love/ Last updated: 2026-03-22T02:30:45.000Z **Only when you get rid of a bad person in your life, can you realize how bad and sick they are. Life is always Good! \~ Stephen Mason** **Letting go doesn't mean you've stopped loving them. We have to keep living too and loving too, if they left this world well they let go of all the negativity of this world and embraced love and are living peacefully which makes me think they are so brave and there they are happy. \~ Elizabeth Cardinal** ### Life changes every single moment URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/life-changes-every-single-moment/ Last updated: 2026-03-20T02:30:07.000Z **Acceptance and letting go of negative stuff helped me get to where I'm not stuck anymore. \~ Kathy Ross** **In life, the only thing that does not change is change!** **If you don't make those changes your life will never get better.** **If you wait for changes they will never come. You have to make the change yourself!** ### There's a special place in your heart for someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/theres-a-special-place-in-your-heart-for-someone/ Last updated: 2026-03-18T02:30:32.000Z **A place always reserved for my sister who embraced me even when I was horrible to her. Lucky to have her in my life. \~ Srilatha Jal** **True friends love you even when you don't love yourself.** **Just need to find someone who may not understand me, but accepts me anyway.** ### Have faith! Things will work out in the end URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/have-faith-things-will-work-out-in-the-end/ Last updated: 2026-03-16T02:30:16.000Z **The more you try to control and hold onto to extremely high expectations the more disappointed you'll be in the end.** **Things are moving so fast now. I am so nervous & scared & worried but I am also so excited for new beginnings! \~ Laurie Pane** **The strongest person is that who controls himself in angriest moment. So self control moment makes you wealthy!** ### Someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-who-doesnt-see-an-issue-in-their-actions/ Last updated: 2026-03-14T02:30:15.000Z A person who can't see an issue with their actions won't change. If a person does not see a problem with their own actions, I do not believe they will have the motivation or desire to change themselves. Having said that, I do not believe anyone can successfully "change" another for the long term and, why would you want to? Spend your time, energy and efforts on yourself; you will attract someone that you enjoy, just as they are! \~ Lisa Buchholtz You can't "change" someone, but you can provide perspective to aid their evolution. But nothing ever happens unless one is receptive and open to self-awareness. All our choices, decisions and directions start with us. \~ Jennifer Pascoe ### A person who listens is gold URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-person-who-listens-is-gold/ Last updated: 2026-03-12T02:30:49.000Z **Learn to Listen and Listen to Learn.** **Too many people have an answer before the other person is even done talking. \~ Ray Lugo** **Communication of the heart, not the tongue, for words are twisted in the minds of men.** ### Let go of what is bringing you down URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/let-go-of-what-is-bringing-you-down/ Last updated: 2026-03-10T02:30:27.000Z Letting go is part of the secret for all kinds of well being. Circumstances can change your outlook on yourself and all others around you. \~ Angela Johnson Let go of the past, you can't predict tomorrow, but you can stay in the moment. You must throw out your excess baggage in order for you to continue your journey. So many times we hold on to unhealthy habits, hang ups and relationships or take on other peoples problems. We hold on with a tight grasp not realizing that we need to let go in order to reach for something better. \~ Martha Ortega Sometimes it's really hard to let go, but we have to because this burden will let us weak. So be strong and be brave for the challenges that we will go through. \~ Angelina Adriano There is at times a heavy weight on a heart and a piece that will be missing. Sometimes it takes a lot longer. \~ Rolonne Ross ### People those often criticize your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-those-often-criticize-your-life/ Last updated: 2026-03-08T02:30:56.000Z They are the ones that made you pay the price, to get where you are today. It's the kind of price you can't put a price on. \~ Gerasimos Loukatos Know one ever knows what a price we pay to get to where we are. Stay strong and own what you have done. People that criticize your life need to get a life of their own. No criticizing or complaining. Works wonders in life. Let you design your life. Don't care about mistakes, especially their speeches or comments about you. Put it back and go ahead. \~ Nidal Okiely Usually people that gossip about other people business or usually jealous or has a boring life & has nothing better to do. For some it is much easier to judge a person then to take time out to know and understand anything about whom or what they are about. \~ Wanda Greenslade Some people also step all over people to get where they are these days as well, but there is such a thing as karma and it will come around one if these days. \~ Dottie Parker Everyone fights their own battles. People need to realize that no matter what you are going through someone else is facing their own challenge as well. No one knows what you've been through unless you tell or show them. This is why I stay out of judging. Trying change folk because we all have travelled paths paved with experiences that has lead us to become who we are today. \~ Bryant Swan Thank you God for how far I've come. Overcoming many challenges, enjoying many awesome times and accomplishments, shedding many tears, receiving much much love and continuing to work on me to perfect who I can be. \~ Kelly Lomashewich I was into body-building, eating healthy, exercising before I had this wonderful life, but now I am over-weight and I know people look at me differently, but I know that I wasn't like this before, and I am aware of it, but people I noticed don't want to be your friend if you are over-weight. \~ Amy McGuire Perhaps even survive a walk in my shoes and I am so grateful the price. \~ Dorian McLean ### Stop trying to please everyone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-trying-to-please-everyone/ Last updated: 2026-03-06T02:30:45.000Z **There comes a time in your life, you should put yourself first for sure!** **It took long time to realize that if one is happy and satisfied, then only can make others happy. \~ Chhaya Vora** ### The way people treat you is not a statement about you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-way-people-treat-you/ Last updated: 2026-03-04T02:30:21.000Z It's not about you, it's about them. I've had to let go of blaming me. People treat you the way you allow them and teach them to treat you. Love yourself. \~ Wendy Shea Better to ignore people who's treating like a beast, never to go down at their level. We should not permit them to destroy ourselves and our confidence. \~ Masr Masreyya Most people don't realise this as they often feel it's about them and can feel a loss of self esteem. When someone lists your negative qualities, it's actually qualities that person possesses. It's called projection. We live in a reflective reality and you can learn about yourself through the way others interact with you. What is it about your energies that are attracting 'this' into your life. People externalise our sub-conscious for us so that we may expand our awareness. \~ Ian Cousins Sounds like these people are jealous of you and are cruel enough to want to hurt you. That is evil and childish behavior and the best way to deal with them is to ignore them. You are too good and kind for them and as it says, it's about who they are, not you. \~ Victoria Mack Treating people the way they treat you is only lowering yourself to their standards, and makes you no different. You have to rise above them and move on, not act like them. \~ Brenda Thyrre We must be able to forgive, and move on. Sometimes things get turned around and everyone is so much better for it. Life is way too short to carry hatred and hurt in our hearts. Prayer always helps too. \~ Sara Schaffnit Forgiveness is good, and necessary if possible, but the next line of this should be about how much we will tolerate, drawing that line in the sand which says stop, you will no longer treat me in a disrespectful manner. Continuing to allow unkind or unacceptable treatment from others does, eventually, say a great deal about you. Standing up for yourself is self-respect and should not be compromised. It does not equal being intolerant. \~ Melissa Williams Some people are so miserable with their life that they want to bring others down with them. They enjoy making drama too when it is not needed. They live on making drama because they are miserable and dont like seeing other people happy. I can't wait till I can get away from such a person. It's like being in the presence of evil. Example, now that she knows she can't get to me any more, she tries even harder to cause the drama. Don't let these kinds of people get to you. \~ Diane Nolasco People typically treat you the way you allow them to treat you. If you are assertive and typically don't allow people to disrespect you. Most people quickly learn to not be disrespectful toward you. Some people, unfortunately, are socially-inept and don't set boundaries for themselves. So, they behave selfishly, self-importantly and are rude toward others. Those are the people that force you to set boundaries for them. When forced to do so, be strict but fair. Eventually, they should learn to self-regulate their behavior and you can begin to relax your vigilance. Though, you may always need to supervise and regulate their behavior, if you plan to allow them to be a part of your life. Of course, you always have the option of using ultimatums to keep them sociable. Or, you can always unfriendly them and move on with your life. \~ Rick Baisden People who do not know how to be happy will not know how to make you happy and will not know how to recognize happiness. People who do not believe they can be loved or are loved do not know how to love or how to receive love. People who have not forgiven themselves will not accept when you have forgiven them or how to forgive. It is not always you, it's about them. Not an easy thing to accept. However, you have to make a decision on how long you give them to realize they must treat you the same way you treat them. \~ Mayrlin Nuñez Those who love to destroy people have small mind and big mouth. They are happy when they see people unhappy. Let us pray for them, be quiet because they will not listen, they will realized at the end but they will not admit. \~ Maybel Niko If you don't respect yourself then people won't respect you is something that I've read before. So love yourself and then you will be loved. I do agree though that some people out there are just plain mean and treat others poorly due to their own insecurities. \~ Andrea Hurley I don't care how people treat me as long as they don't have any power over me. \~ David Velasquez ### Every day may not be Good URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/every-day-may-not-be-good/ Last updated: 2026-03-02T02:30:13.000Z Everyday is good some are just better than others. Dance in the rain and make it a great day. If you look carefully there will always be something good. The rain may be gloomy but it brings many pretty flowers. There sure is and plenty of it, if one would see instead of just look. We can't see the rainbow without rain. Look for the good in what would normally be thought of as a negative situation by many. At the very least, it is a lesson and that is a good thing. \~ Denise Hecht Been remembering and trying to live by this philosophy for some years now. It helps get you through very dark and sad times and is such a blessing when things are going well. \~ Joy Dyer ### A healthy relationship doesn't drag you down URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-healthy-relationship-doesnt-drag-you-down/ Last updated: 2026-02-28T02:30:45.000Z Sometimes people don't realize this. They should be free of such relations which want them to be dragged down in life. Only healthy & progressive relations are worth it. \~ Shweta Bhatia Unfortunately, many can't quite let go of their bummer relationship. They drag it on till they end up in a divorce court. \~ Zenobia Davis Everyone gets down once and a while and needs a sounding board. However, if all you ever hear from that person is negative, then maybe you need to re-evaluate the relationship. Sometimes all we need to do is point out that we desire to be more positive to the negative mindset. If it brings change then great. If not we can move on. If we are not a good fit, if I am drained instead of energized, the relationship is not right for me, whether it is a friend, a mate or an employer. \~ Brie Dinsmore I won't go into every detail of a relationship I had back in the 70's but I was dragged down to the lowest a person could feel. I am a better person and I fought to be better. I am standing today knowing the terrible time I had back then. Married to a great guy who respects me as a person and is there to support me during the good and bad times. \~ Gloria Hall A healthy relationship with yourself attracts healthy relationships with others. \~ Visalus Wisconsin Sometimes they can "drag"you up to be better. \~ David Velasquez ### Some people will not be good for you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-will-not-be-good-for-you/ Last updated: 2026-02-26T02:30:03.000Z **It's because of their priorities. If I'm not included in theirs than I should stop making them mine either. \~ Jeannette Schutten** **Sometimes you just have to let go and walk away whether you really want to or not. You have to be true to yourself and what's important to you! \~ Randall Hyde** **It is a real sick when you first realize it, then you just pick up your broken pieces & force yourself to move on & accept it. It hurts something terrible, but you must go on. \~ Shi Maiideshgiznii** **Sometimes easier to let go rather than holding on. Sometimes healthier for oneself as well. Life happens, appreciate what was, accept what is and move on. \~ Tina Laplante** ### Those people who treat you like crap URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/those-people-who-treat-you-like-crap/ Last updated: 2026-02-24T02:30:48.000Z **Just smile at them and walk away!** **The way a person treats you has nothing to do with you, but with their own insecurities, shortcomings, past experiences (which lends to their biases) and their need to temporarily have power over someone, as to make themselves feel better about their own sad, pathetic life. \~ Diana Sousa** **Take back the power and silently walk away! \~ Gabrielle Helber** **Being with the people who respects and loves you that makes us happy.** **Love never fails. Some people can be so mean and ruthless, without cause or reason. But what goes around comes around. The best cure for people like that is to love them from a distance, and pray for them. Never allow yourself to give up on love because people like those mistreat you. Love God first, love yourself, and love others, and God will put all things into perspective. \~ June Scott** ### How amazing things can happen in life? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-amazing-things-can-happen-in-life/ Last updated: 2026-02-22T02:30:18.000Z **My life is so blessed so I get rid of all negative approach!** **Negative people are only negative because they are so unhappy and it does rub off. \~ Kanzler Pam** ### When you are just an option to someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-are-just-an-option-to-someone/ Last updated: 2026-02-20T02:30:47.000Z **I would say it's easiest to walk away. Don't you have a great reason for it, you are 'an option', no respect, nothing, just someone's plan 'b', when it's convenient to them. It's so easy to walk away from that, it's much harder to walk away when you are not an option, I would say but, everyone has it's own opinion. \~ Vesna Mitic** **Some just use you & when you stop they get mad!** **Sometimes you have to in order for them to realize that you're the RIGHT option. I would rather have my love than my pride. Just because someone may be your priority, doesn't mean that you yourself don't have other options, it just means that they are your favorite one. \~ Jessica Artau** ### The most memorable people in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-memorable-people-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2026-02-18T02:30:30.000Z That is what being a true friend really means! My mom has always loved me when I wasn't so lovely. She truly is my gift my angel from God. \~ Evangelynn Lopez So thankful for my husband and daughter who always show how much they love me no matter what. \~ Janet Williams ### Just because your past has been damaged URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/just-because-your-past-has-been-damaged/ Last updated: 2026-02-16T02:30:04.000Z The best is yet to come! Your future is your chance to become better. Treat your tomorrows as if it is the last of your today's because sadly you'll be right. It's a great life. Enjoy it! It's all we've got. ### A special place in your heart for someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-special-place-in-your-heart-for-someone/ Last updated: 2026-02-14T02:30:17.000Z In this world, it's very difficult to find people who listens and understands you rather than spending more time over talking. True friends lift you up during hard times and doesn't criticize or leave your hands. It's priceless to have people like this in our life. Once should truly give a special place on your heart to them and cherish every single moment you spend with them. Sometimes, in live people don't need an intelligent mind giving right advice, but a heart that listens and makes you smile. We all go through life ups and downs, some days we need someone to bring back on track. \~ [Tejas Patel](http://tejaspatel.me/?ref=enlighteningquotes.com) ### Your past cannot be changed or erased URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/your-past-cannot-be-changed-or-erased/ Last updated: 2026-02-12T02:30:45.000Z **My past was so painful, sad and so heartbreaking. Yes I accepted that we can't change it, but I can never ignore or forget it. I have learned so much from my past. It taught me not to trust and give too much and learn how to love yourself too. \~ Jane Villamiro** **Living in the past, revisiting all the wrongs committed against you again & again. Learning from our past is a good thing, but we must continue to move forward otherwise, if we stay stuck in the past, it is like an unhealed wound that never heals. It becomes infected, oozes nasty stuff & perhaps even one day it might become life-threatening & need to be cut out like a cancer. We do have options, we just need to make good choices for ourselves, have more "resilience" & creating our new future. The past is called the past for a reason, learn what you need from it & move on. \~ ET Spice** **If you can forgive, you can heal yourself. To forgive does not mean to forget. We live and learn and try not to repeat the mistakes of our past. Acceptance will set you free and allow you to be true to yourself. What I have learned is that I can be myself and continue to trust, love and, yes, give generously, for not to be able to do so would mean that my past controls me. I refuse to allow people who have harmed me in so many ways to change my very nature. I am true to who I am and I am happy. \~ Marjorie Blum** ### Don't let your feelings rule you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-let-your-feelings-rule-you/ Last updated: 2026-02-10T02:30:38.000Z One has to control their feelings. It makes you do things which are beyond your control. We have to always follow our heart, but also taking mind along with us, so that we are not blindly accepting things happen around you. Self control is necessary to be aware about what you are doing and where you will end up. Never look for happiness from outside sources. Be happy within yourself. Emotions, thoughts and feelings are temporary, we have to feel those and remove them just like baggage. If you hold on to them for longer period of time, then it will turn out into habits which will be difficult for you to overcome it. \~ [Tejas Patel](http://www.tejaspatel.me/?ref=enlighteningquotes.com) ### Be careful with your words URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/be-careful-with-your-words/ Last updated: 2026-02-08T02:30:42.000Z **Sometimes I need to just walk away, why do I find myself arguing with foolishness and bad behavior is beyond me. I'm human and sometimes hurt gets the best of me! \~ Darlene Nelson** **I'll tell you I don't regret a word I've said because at any given time I may speak my truth and maybe it's not called for but it moves me closer to seeing myself for what I am. \~ Addie Poitz** **Words hurt! When I was a kid, my "so called" friends started calling me Ugly. It stays with me to this day. \~ Kandi Romesburg** **Life is way too short. We all have differences and our own opinions. You also never know what someone is emotionally dealing with inside of themselves, so try to be kind and forgive if actions and words hurt. Most likely that person who hurt you were having some difficult issues to overcome and did not mean to take things out on you. \~ Sheila Flynn** **Even if you are hurt and angry, don't say the words you will later regret.** ### Real friends treat you like family URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/real-friends-treat-you-like-family/ Last updated: 2026-02-06T02:30:54.000Z **If they're really your friends they'll treat you better than family would.** **My friends have always treated me better than eg. my parents. Families mostly put up some unreal expectations from their children, which I believe no one and never would be able to realize/fulfill. \~ Hrvoje Šafran** ### What's one thing about growing up? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/whats-one-thing-about-growing-up/ Last updated: 2026-02-04T02:30:01.000Z **Hate gets you nowhere, except to a more painful path through life.** **As you grow older,you realize that it is not how you look like but what kind of a person you have become.** **It's not as though you don't care, some things lose their importance and fall into place as we go along. \~ Patricia Summers** ### Stop thinking about your mistakes & move on URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-thinking-about-your-mistakes-move-on/ Last updated: 2026-02-02T02:30:34.000Z **It takes time, but one gradually feels the turning point inside, in your gut/heart.** **Some lessons comes with tears and heartbreak, but you got to move on as you are the ultimate mentor for yourself. \~ Uche Chikwe** **Mistakes don't make you who you are, what you learn from them does.** **There's always another day, that we can make our choices. Either to help our self to move forward or to drained because at the end of the day we can free ourselves in all the worried or go home and have a good glass of wine. \~ Zennie Talbot** **I wouldn't have the blessings in my life if I hadn't gone through some mistakes. If I turn around and look back at my crooked, back-tracking, and uphill path, I would never have made it to the point of gratitude I'm in now. \~ Mark Thude** ### Some people come & go in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-come-go-in-life/ Last updated: 2026-02-01T02:30:17.000Z **Some bring happiness wherever they go, others whenever they leave.** **The people who matter, don't mind and the people who mind don't matter.** **Thankful to all great human beings that have taught us how to live! \~ David Tih Seong Pin** **The people who stay forever are your true friends.** ### Not everyone will appreciate what you do for them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/not-everyone-will-appreciate-what-you-do-for-them/ Last updated: 2025-12-30T02:30:32.000Z **Beware of those people will abuse of your kindness.** **When you do something for someone, you do it because of what is in your heart, not what you can get out of the action. \~ Tabi Powell** **Keep the positive people in your life, say Goodbye to the liars, cheaters, stealers, dishonest people. Surround yourself with positive happy, true friendship the ones who really care who love you the way you are.** ### You can always move on from the person URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-can-always-move-on-from-the-person/ Last updated: 2025-12-28T02:30:58.000Z **Forgive them, not for them, but for you!** **Forgiveness is like stepping into a shower to wash away the dirt and grime, when shower over, feel refreshed and invigorated and clean. \~ Leona Jones** **It's not easy to forgive and you never forget, however, if you don't forgive, it eats you up and make you a bitter person.** **You can't help people who can't help themselves. Yes, it hurts, but I also learned a valuable lesson about unconditional love. Learning to give love without expectation and to detach yourself from the outcome. We can't make other people happy, but we can can only uplift them and support them. We can remind them that they have the power to help themselves. Forgive to make yourself whole again. It's really what that scar taught us. We all make mistakes, which makes us human. Forgive yourself, not because you did anything wrong. Forgive so you can be cared for too. You've been hurt and you have every right to have compassion for yourself. Tell yourself, I deserve to treat myself better by letting go of the anger, resentment, the pain, etc. Forgiveness is to heal yourself, not by getting mad at yourself because someone screwed you over or beating up on yourself because you didn't know better before. Forgiveness is being kind to yourself so you can heal those wounds by reconnecting with yourself again to recognize your own self-worth. \~ Nikka Rose** ### If you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-keep-blaming-everyone-else-for-who-you-are-now/ Last updated: 2025-12-26T02:30:56.000Z **I don't blame them, I thank them. Some showed me who I wanted to become by being kinder, more decent people, respectful of others' feelings. Some showed me who I didn't want to become, by doing just the opposite, to me and/or others. I thank them ALL. \~ Irene Szymczak** **We all have things we'd change if we could go back and do it, but if we did would we truly be who we want or should be. Mistakes become lessons if we learn from them. Trust God be who you're meant to be. You are the choices you make. Claim them, deal with them, and correct them. \~ Linda Kennedy** **You'll never become your best self if you listen to others. Do what you ant to do, forget about pleasing others or you will never please yourself and drop their baggage off at the first stop! No baggage claim! \~ Darlene Nelson** ### When you choose to see the good in others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-choose-to-see-the-good-in-others/ Last updated: 2025-12-24T02:30:33.000Z **You should always see good in people & if some take advantage, don't turn a way from others because of them as, you never know the next person could be genuine. \~ Judith Ready** **There are people in the world that will try to use you. It doesn't mean that you have to become mean and selfish. The key here is to learn from it and realize that you now know what signs to look for and if that person that you are being good is showing them then you can distance yourself from them or confront them about it. When you are good to others then it is a reflection of yourself. Being kind is not a sign of weakness, but instead of strength. If someone tries to take advantage of me then weakness is not what they will see. Being kind and good doesn't mean that you have to allow others to disrespect you. \~ Shelia Locke** ### How your life becomes easier? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-your-life-becomes-easier/ Last updated: 2025-12-22T02:30:10.000Z Very few person can offer you apology in life. Never ever disappoint them. Forgive them, forget them and move ahead. LIFE IS TOO SMALL TO THINK IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. \~ Timmy Sharma Whatever happens, everyone is doing the best they can at the time they are doing it. Whether you feel it's right or wrong, it's a moment. Got to let it go and move on. Life is better that way. \~ Sharon Sears It doesn't mean that by forgiving them, you should continue the toxic relationship. Forgiving them releases you. Maintain your standards and boundaries and remove them from your life until they stop the behavior that is poisoning the soup. \~ Valerie Kingsbury Apologizing = Humility. Those without humility deserve humiliation. What I'm forgiving is myself to let someone without humility hurt me, but I am not forgiving the person that is too weak and selfish to apologize. \~ Warren Baker Don't allow unforgiveness to block you or stop you from loving the one's who deserve and need. Your priceless gift of love. \~ Cindy Rice ### We just need to feel we are supported & cared about URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-just-need-to-feel-we-are-supported-cared-about/ Last updated: 2025-12-20T02:30:16.000Z The greatest love & support I have gotten, is from my husband when no one else has been there for me. \~ Gwenn Jenkins Sometimes when a person is going through a hard times they feel very alone in it. It's nice to know someone actually cares. \~ Tracy Thatcher Knowing that there is someone beside me and will be there if I needed something, it gives me strength. With this feeling in my heart I can move mountains. I can do everything! \~ Signe Buceniece ### People who are committed to misunderstand you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-are-committed-to-misunderstand-you/ Last updated: 2025-12-18T02:30:44.000Z If they believe something that isn't true they were never your true friend you are better off without them! Chances are; if you have to explain it, they'd probably not be able to understand it anyway. \~ Steve Honeycutt You most certainly can just cut them out of your lives. But just because you happen to be related to someone doesn't mean you have to keep them in your lives if they are horrid to you. You do not have a choice who you share blood or family ties with, but you DO have a choice if you keep them in your life or not. Being a family member does not give someone the right to walk all over you. \~ Amber LaDuke When people spend so much effort trying to damage peoples character in the eyes of others. It is because they have no character themselves. \~ Reneigh Swanner ### Don't worry about what people say behind your back URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-worry-about-what-people-say-behind-your-back/ Last updated: 2025-12-16T02:30:54.000Z Don't care what people say behind your back, it's a reflection on them not you. If you have to put someone down, or hurt them to make yourself feel good, or validated, you are the one with some serious problems. \~ Kim Neill ### People are meant to cross our path URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-are-meant-to-cross-our-path/ Last updated: 2025-12-14T02:30:16.000Z Sometimes it's just to help them get through something, then you continue on your own journey. \~ Kim Perrigo I have had some wonderful people who have crossed my path, I think of them as angels in disguise. \~ Linda Colp All people can make you happy, some when they arrive, some when they depart. \~ Bruce McKinlay Your soulmate will always find you no matter how far away they are! ### The hardest part of walking away URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-hardest-part-of-walking-away/ Last updated: 2025-12-12T02:30:05.000Z One year ago I finally accepted that walking away was the change I needed in order to better myself. Looking back I realize I should have walked away a lot earlier. \~ Kadie Gordon If you are committed to someone that sometimes you do have to change. Not for them but for yourself. How important is that person to you? Do you want to make the relationship work? Is it worth it to you to change behaviors that are hurtful to another? \~ Kellie Carrier Sometimes if both parties are willing to do some work and re-evaluate it can work. As a therapist I can usually tell if both parties are willing and if not parting is ok however I don't think you have to hang onto the anger hurt because it can turn to resentments and that way you only hurt yourself forgiveness is in order to free your heart of the pain and often if you have kids it's important you do this in order to co-parent however depends on the situation. I can usually tell who will make it and who won't sometimes not, not an easy decision. \~ Pauline Leroux When we're young we all go through this, then, as we mature it all of the sudden clicks that we need to be happy within to be able to make anything work. \~ Tami Hudson Giving of yourself is a good thing. Giving all of you is pointless. Walk away before there's nothing left of you. \~ Matthew Anderson ### Optimism is a happiness magnet URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/optimism-is-a-happiness-magnet/ Last updated: 2025-12-10T02:30:47.000Z Be a radiator, not a drain! Without of doubt, this is truly a magnet, male or female. This is truly a magnet. People are drawn too optimistic people because it gives them belief that things will be better. We all need that hope to continue on whether you want to acknowledge that or not. \~ Joe Friessnig ### The person who didn't love you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-person-who-didnt-love-you/ Last updated: 2025-12-08T02:30:06.000Z Have the courage to leave the ones that hurt you, you will be amazed what doors open and who comes into your life. It will hurt, don't be fooled, it will be hard, but it will be worth it. It may not happen overnight, but it will happen. As someone said to me after I divorced, there is sunshine after rain and there sure is, for me his name is Mike Godsall and he is one pretty amazing guy. \~ Tania Godsall ### When other people treat you poorly URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-other-people-treat-you-poorly/ Last updated: 2025-12-06T02:30:05.000Z **Stay true. Stay sweet. It takes a special heart to do it, but I believe it's the best way to live. It's a worthy struggle. Love is the only way. Love people. Love humanity. \~ Patricia Deshommes** **Just be happy, even other are not happy with themselves.** **Don't let them take your feeling and cover them for you. If so they win!** ### Some people won't understand your journey URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-wont-understand-your-journey/ Last updated: 2025-12-04T02:30:19.000Z **When they don't understand they call you crazy! We don't need to have their approval or accompany us on our journey.** **You don't know anything of their journey too. Let's leave them alone. Just respect them as you want to be respected. \~ Naoki Ibata** **We walk a path patterned just for us to learn what we need to know.** **You need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to know exactly what there journey is about.** ### Where you are in life is temporary URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/where-you-are-in-life-is-temporary/ Last updated: 2025-12-02T02:30:21.000Z **Losers are people who are afraid of losing.** **Just keep swimming! Life is up stream, keep reaching for the ocean blue and when you get to the ocean deep your future is as limitless as the ocean blue. \~ Barry Wallach** ### We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-all-at-certain-times-in-our-lives-find-ourselves-broken/ Last updated: 2025-11-30T02:30:06.000Z I am here for a short time and I will not be bringing any of this with me, so why worry about things that you cannot fix. I have the courage to change the things, I can fix but some things are unfixable. So, I decided that I want a somewhat happy life. I do not want to pick the sad and miserable worrying road. When the end comes and it will, none of us are getting out alive. I want to leave somewhat happy. Stand up tall and smile and shove the rest aside. If it is not a life and death situation. LET IT GO!!! This is my Motto! \~ Debbie Godin When all of the hard times are done, you can see your strength that you never thought possible. \~ Sherrie Neff True strength comes from brokenness, when we allow God to pick up the pieces and allow HIM to put us back together in such a way that the pieces don't come unglued. \~ Tena Jones ### You don't have to stay & respond to rude remarks URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-dont-have-to-stay-respond-to-rude-remarks/ Last updated: 2025-11-28T02:30:39.000Z I can say I did that at my last position that I work at. I practice what I preached, I used to tell my kids, " small people have small minds." I walked away with my head held high. \~ Leona Kahl So many decent people around who don't deserve the way they get treated. Let them say what they want to say and think of you, but just keep you head up high, let go of everything and walk on, walk strong. \~ Franzine Papabatu Being strong means being wise enough to pick your battles rather than allowing your battles to pick you. You just show your strength, all the bullies are doing is showing there true colors, that's all they have is being mean. Be positive and strong, that will take you a long way in life. \~ Deborah Scott ### Sometimes walking away is a step forward URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-walking-away-is-a-step-forward/ Last updated: 2025-11-26T02:30:00.000Z **Sometimes we know in our heart that certain people are not the blessing or friend we thought they were. We help them and feel awkward when we realize this, but they still need a friend they can trust in their lives, until they are on their feet, so we continue to help as it is the right thing to do, even if that person is not worthy of our love and friendship when we really find out what they are all about. \~ Sarah Olson** **I've learned to love enough to walk away. Engaging in relationships based on ideas that are not working, is not worth it. It's super hard to make the choice, but in the long run it's worth it. Everyone is in your life for a reason. It's undetermined how many seasons. Don't let the invested time shackle your life. Time Spent = Lessons Learned. \~ Maleka Diggs** **The further you run the father you fall behind keep going forward.** ### When it is harder for you to move on URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-it-is-harder-for-you-to-move-on/ Last updated: 2025-11-24T02:30:19.000Z Sometimes you need to go for help to put the past behind you, like getting rid of those last few pounds that you thought you lost, you get so used to it being there you pretend its gone, but it shows in one way or another. \~ Barb Noonan Even with things that weigh me down, I try to have faith that things work out the way they should. If I live my truth and walk my path, things will authentically unfold the way they are supposed to. \~ Taji Em ### Being someone's first love may be great URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/being-someones-first-love-may-be-great/ Last updated: 2025-11-22T02:30:57.000Z First love God and last love God, you have a heart and soul to love your spouse and family near that amount but differently, love yourself also, being ever thankful you are a child of GOD and blessed by him as a father loves his children. \~ Teresa Smith There is just one love of life. Love is the depth of feeling which is important, mostly everlasting and forever one is beyond perfect. \~ Deblina Das I married my first love and we just celebrated 26 years of marriage. Still going strong with God in our marriage. We have been through bad times but we stuck with it and will continue too. \~ Nan Hefner ### 8 Things to Give Up URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/8-things-to-give-up/ Last updated: 2025-11-20T02:30:38.000Z When you do, you'll be completely free and have a whole different perspective on everything in your life. You can never please everyone and you usually get mad to yourself for trying! Love yourself enough to follow your on mind. The one God blessed you with. There is no formula, recipe, guidelines: TOTALLY YOU!! Love you first your mind will follow. Be mindful and blessed! \~ Mary Day ### People who make an effort for you, not an excuse URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-make-an-effort-for-you-not-an-excuse/ Last updated: 2025-11-18T02:30:49.000Z If someone loves you and cares for you they will make time to keep in contact with you. It really hurts when someone you love to spend time with them, yet they never reach out to make a phone call or text or except any of your invitations yet you still love them but, maybe time to let them go. \~ Kimberly Stoodley The person who really cares for you is called friend. He or she feels happy when you are happy and unhappy when you are unhappy. \~ Maria Hatziandreou Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are. Don’t sacrifice yourself too much because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. \~ Elahi Kazi ### The most important decision you make URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-important-decision-you-make/ Last updated: 2025-11-16T02:30:22.000Z When in a good mood, all the doors to negativity are shut - you become a sponge to positive thoughts. \~ Humaira Ansari Choosing to be happy makes all the difference. ### The most beautiful people we have known URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-beautiful-people-we-have-known/ Last updated: 2025-11-14T02:30:45.000Z There are so many people in the world like this - ones that have suffered for whatever reason and found their way through and develop compassion, gentleness and loving concern on their way. It reminds me that there is beauty in this world. There always has been. It reminds me that I need to always remember to look further than what I initially see. I am appreciative when others don't dismiss me at first glance. There is that beauty in all of us, in little ways we can encourage it out of each other. \~ Barb Saxton Life's challenges often builds people's character & brings out their positive traits. Suffering is a part of building character! All these unhappy things in life help you appreciate even the smallest of good things. ### The Gift of unconditional love & acceptance URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-gift-of-unconditional-love-acceptance/ Last updated: 2025-11-12T02:30:02.000Z Unconditional Love is very Rare. Enjoy it while it lasts! The Lord has given all of us the gift of unconditional love and acceptance and forgiveness. When we share that gift with others we fulfill the greatest commandment, that we love God, love others as ourselves. \~ Barb Saxton ### Material things mean nothing in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/material-things-mean-nothing-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-11-10T02:30:16.000Z I would have gave anything for my mom to still be with me. \~ Kim Dzaferovic Material things are nothing when you lose them but friends and especially family will be there forever. If you have your health, you don't need anything else! People usually judge you by your cover, they don't have time to check you out. People try to please others but all they need is your time. You can't buy them for missed time. \~ Karen Woodward ### If you unintentionally hurt someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-unintentionally-hurt-someone/ Last updated: 2025-11-08T02:30:59.000Z Never apologize for being yourself as long as you're a good person in your Heart & Soul! Some people get intimidated by me because I am me especially most men, but that is not my problem. They want their own version of me. \~ Nora Firebrand Unintentionally hurting someone usually comes from misinterpretation or a difference of opinion or something and I will never apologize for that. If I have purposely hurt someone though, for sure, it is my responsibility to apologize. \~ Ava Grace ### Struggles are required in order to survive in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/struggles-are-required-in-order-to-survive-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-11-06T02:30:34.000Z I know what struggles are and I continue to get myself right back up. I will be a survivor till the end. \~ Maria Kidd I've been up and down so many times I feel like one of those plastic clowns from years ago that had sand in the bottom so they would not stay down when you boxed the clown he would pop right back up. The Divine Creator is my sand, keeps me from falling so far down that I can't get up. \~ Janey Beasley ### If you look at what you have in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-look-at-what-you-have-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-11-04T02:30:36.000Z The more you have, the more you want. The less you have, the more you appreciate what you have. Happiness is a state of mind. It is not tangible. \~ Mishka Dermody You could always have less but be thankful for what you got because you have all you need you might not have all you want. God gives us exactly what we were supposed to have so be humble, be grateful because there's always someone out there in the world who is less fortunate. \~ Laurie Sharbono What we have we've worked hard and did without to get where we are. God is good. He knows that's all that counts. \~ Patsy Whitmoyer ### When you are in the final days of your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-are-in-the-final-days-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-11-02T02:30:42.000Z You come into this world with nothing and you go out the same way. It's what you do as you pass through that matters. \~ Bea Manuel My mum recently passed and we ensured all who could be there was. The room was full of people just wanting to be there with her. I will remember every last one who gave their time so unselfishly. \~ Margaret Sheil Unfortunately nowadays people care more about material things rather than true relations with their dear ones. They never have time, postpone meetings till next time. \~ Irene Volynets ### Life is sometimes very difficult URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/life-is-sometimes-very-difficult/ Last updated: 2025-10-30T02:30:21.000Z Women are brave and courageous that's why men try to step on them to try to suppress there bravery. Well not all men just the ignorant egotistical ones who live with out love. \~ Rene Contreras The true test of character is not measured when or how often you fall; but rather how you rise back up from the fall. Everyone makes mistakes, realizing how to admit it and learn from it is the true gift. ### You can't always explain or defend yourself URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cant-always-explain-or-defend-yourself/ Last updated: 2026-08-05T08:23:35.000Z Everyone is responsible for his own words and deed before God. I choose peace when I finally decided to let go, care for myself and give it to God, it has been the most freeing experience ever. God knows my heart and that is all that matters! Life is too short. \~ Cindy Fitzgerald ### Every single day, you make a choice URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/every-single-day-you-make-a-choice/ Last updated: 2025-10-26T02:30:32.000Z Put on your positive face and install your positive attitude when you get up every morning, good advice from my aunt who lived to be 100 years young. \~ Jean Marks Depression is a battle you will continue to fight the rest of your life. The good news, the battles will become less & less. Give yourself a chance before you give that power away to depression. \~ Lou Covillo ### Give up everything that weighs you down URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/give-up-everything-that-weighs-you-down/ Last updated: 2025-10-24T02:30:40.000Z Just let go of things that are negative and weighing you down from being happy! ### How you're going to live your life? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-youre-going-to-live-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-10-22T02:30:36.000Z I've quit feeling depressed about being rejected by some people that have pasted in my life as being rejected by people is a form off growth. There is no fare in me any longer just positive thoughts and real goals. My life has taken a turn or two over speed humps through rain and snow darkness now I see only sunshine and my destination is clearly in my sight and I travel with the desire of positive out comes. \~ George Tzatzimakis Everyone should be more grateful for what you have have been given in live. Work with what you have and live life to the fullest every day you don't know when you may not have it anymore. \~ CW Hesler Need to think positively to have a positive life. Negativity just hurts you more and destroys your life. You cannot have a happy life if you are constantly being negative. ### You can never make the same mistake twice URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-can-never-make-the-same-mistake-twice/ Last updated: 2025-10-20T02:30:39.000Z Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."..."The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to come out different" you're just fooling yourself. Mistakes sometimes done intentionally or unintentionally as the case maybe, the outcome, if a mistake and repeat it again then that is by choice. \~ Catalina Tolentino ### A Secret to Happiness URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-secret-to-happiness/ Last updated: 2025-10-18T02:30:19.000Z Like a child, we are expected to this much only, we buy unhappiness by trying to control that cannot be controlled. \~ Sandeep Verma Live on life's terms - things are much more peaceful when I can think that way. \~ Randal Melton ### Never Judge someone by the opinion of others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-judge-someone-by-the-opinion-of-others/ Last updated: 2025-10-16T02:30:50.000Z People judge a lot of people before they have even met based on what they hear. Love covers multitude of sins, but a gossip can separate even closest friends. We should never think of judging a person on the opinion of others. We should learn to respect that person. No matter how we feel it's like that saying NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER. Always read the next few pages first before passing judgement & then we should learn to understand what a person is truly like from within themselves because it's not how we look at a person from the outside it's what they truly have hidden underneath that matters because beauty also comes from within & not only as on the outside. \~ Amanda Tripney This is the worst thing that may happened in our life. It's the greatest mistake of some people who are always making some gossip even they don't know what the real truth is. Those idiot people always hear the false story. \~ Cecille Prittmann None of us have a right to judge anyone, of course don't let anyone mistreat you. If someone can't treat you right stay away from them plain & simple. \~ Juanita Moore ### Don't compare your struggles to anyone else's URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-compare-your-struggles-to-anyone-elses/ Last updated: 2025-10-14T02:30:17.000Z Who would ever be discouraged by the success of others if anything that's inspiration we should all help build each other up! \~ Jodi De Paul It's easy to get discouraged by others success if you haven't felt your own and you also compare yourselves to others. It doesn't make it a good habit or action but it is a very normal emotion/situation to feel/be in. We should be inspired at our similarities and our successes for those are example paths. \~ Doc Capers No matter how you feel, Get up, Dress up,Show up, and never ever give up! People are too afraid to face themselves so they walk in the shadows of others. ### Sometimes people just need an ear to listen URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-people-just-need-an-ear-to-listen/ Last updated: 2025-10-12T02:30:59.000Z It's not that you want someone to solve everything, but sometimes, just to listen is all. Sometimes you look at a couple people verbally fighting, and after a little bit of a deeper look, you feel like the person who is about to punch the other in the face, is only asking for a cuddle but in an indirect way, because if he/she asks the cuddle then the whole meaning of it has gone and it's usually the woman to be frank. \~ Amoon Alaa El-Deen Most people have the answers already inside them they just need support so they can make good decisions and do hard things. A hug and a few kind words go a long way. \~ Barbara Hopkins ### Many people will walk in & out of your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/many-people-will-walk-in-out-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-10-10T02:30:29.000Z True friends don't leave! Everyone should try leaving more footprints! ### Most people listen with the intent to reply URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/most-people-listen-with-the-intent-to-reply/ Last updated: 2025-10-08T02:30:11.000Z People begin talking before the other person is done talking. Help me God to listen to understand. \~ Colleen Warren We need to remember we have one mouth and two ears for a reason! No one is perfect, people should understand that, but some people don't understand or listen because they have already judged you from the beginning and made their opinion. \~ Anjali Mehta ### Too many people have no idea what they can do in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/too-many-people-have-no-idea-what-they-can-do-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-10-06T02:30:26.000Z After I got away from all the negative people in my life I realized I could and would be whatever I wanted and that I am a beautiful, smart and funny person, but had to endure the bad to get where I am today. Living my life for myself and not for anyone else. \~ Debra Horvath Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid. \~ Albert Einstein Encourage kids to reach their highest potential, instead of judging their abilities from flawed aptitude tests. ### Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-have-to-stop-thinking-so-much/ Last updated: 2025-10-04T02:30:03.000Z Take it a day at a time and sometimes a minute at a time. I am making myself stop worrying about so much that I don't even need to care about. \~ Patricia Pruden For me the best way to top worrying and over thinking things is to take action. Go left, Go right, up or down. But the main thing is to move. Make a phone call. I feel like I've spend days on end on the net looking for answers to help solve a problem I'm having. Talk to friends and family, you'll find that most of us have friends who would love to help. The easy thing is to do something. The really hard part is to do nothing. \~ Freeman William ### If you find someone who checks up on you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-find-someone-who-checks-up-on-you/ Last updated: 2025-10-02T02:30:42.000Z You have to be that person first. Be happy with yourself, be the best you can. Be that person for someone else! ### If there ever comes a day when we can't be together URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-there-ever-comes-a-day-when-we-cant-be-together/ Last updated: 2025-09-30T02:30:23.000Z A person is never forgotten when you carry them in your heart. Love gives an amazing feelings of happiness. I hope everyone have this feeling atleast once in their life. \~ Jennifer Lopez ### Spend time with those you love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/spend-time-with-those-you-love/ Last updated: 2025-09-28T02:30:43.000Z As you get older, you will start to understand more and more that in life that it’s not about what you look like or what you own, it’s all about the person you have become. Even when you are at your worst, you don't run or leave them. You never know how much your presence means to them. ### Close the door of your past URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/close-the-door-of-your-past/ Last updated: 2025-09-26T02:30:16.000Z If you dwell on the past, you will not recognize the opportunities given to you to move on and find happiness! Going forward, no sense in looking back unless you are going that way. Forward! That's the only direction. This day is the first day of the rest of your life make the most of it while you can life is not guaranteed. ### If you tell the truth to someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-tell-the-truth-to-someone/ Last updated: 2025-09-24T02:30:49.000Z Telling the truth when you shouldn't tell anything at all becomes part of your future too. There are times when it's prudent to keep your mouth shut! \~ Cheryl Johnson Liars are selfish. They only lie to protect themselves when in reality they are deeply hurting & emotionally damaging the person they are lying to. Dated a guy for almost 7 years & found out 99% of our relationship was based on lies. Sick over it! What's funny is he told me one of my greatest qualities was my honesty & he loved that about me. \~ Lisa Cenajko If you tell the truth you don't have to have a good memory! If I catch you in 1 lie, nothing you ever say again. Once a liar always a liar. \~ Diana Handerson ### A True Soulmate URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-true-soulmate/ Last updated: 2025-09-22T02:30:25.000Z I will never forget the day I admitted I hated the job I had spent so much time and money preparing for, worked for 15 years miserable. My wonderful husband shrugged off the money and said, "You hate it, we don't need it, I never cared about the money anyway. Go in tomorrow and quit." When someone tells you it is okay not to be "responsible", but to take care of yourself instead, that is a soul mate, not some Disney prince. Supportive most of the time, but willing to smack you upside the head with reality when needed. \~ Maria Town We all strive for that soul mate. Someone who won't give you more bricks to build a higher wall with. You deserves more than just a soul mate. Life is never just about work, get out there and meet more people. Find your own happness! \~ Jacky Foo ### We need a patient heart who listens URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-need-a-patient-heart-who-listens/ Last updated: 2025-09-20T02:30:09.000Z God gave us two ears to hear and one mouth to speak, therefore we should listen twice as much as we talk. When are we going to start telling the truth and stop worrying about hurting somebody's feelings? Lies for the sake of feelings never does any good in the long run and only confuses the recipients of the lies. \~ Jeff Harbol ### If you want to love me now URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-want-to-love-me-now/ Last updated: 2025-09-18T02:30:17.000Z Not everyone can handle them and those who can't, you let them go. Don't let them make you feel bad for who you are and struggled to become except me for who I am, so I can learn what I can become. \~ Suzanne Miller Accept me for who I am. Appreciate what got me to this point good or bad. \~ Robert Wytrykus ### Never let your friends feel lonely URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-let-your-friends-feel-lonely/ Last updated: 2025-09-16T02:30:41.000Z Never invite them or tell them where you live, always send them over to your next annoying friend's house. \~ Brewster Jewel ### People only need a special heart that listens URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-only-need-a-special-heart-that-listens/ Last updated: 2025-09-14T02:30:59.000Z A man who can really listen without "fixing" things is a good man to have around. \~ Heidi Dominguez There are people who will take advantage of your thoughtfulness. You need to know where to draw the line. The world needs kindness. Too many people think it's all me...me....me... \~ Clara Green ### People who spend too much time hating on others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-spend-too-much-time-hating-on-others/ Last updated: 2025-09-12T02:30:00.000Z Don't give the people who have hurt you. The power of hanging on to that hurt they have long forgotten you! \~ Sharyn Hamilton Those people just make special times together so painful. Love yourself and love the time you have with family and friends! \~ Tami Voorhis ### Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/miserable-people-focus-on-what-they-hate-about-their-life/ Last updated: 2025-09-10T02:30:28.000Z As I always say "misery loves company". Miserable people not only focus on their miserable lives but find reasons to pick on others lives. \~ Letty Benitez Miserable people love to try to bring the happy ones down to join them. Miserable people not only are not happy, they hate if they see others happy and try and try to find away to bring you down to there sorrowful life. Find the good in life and focus on the positive not the negative. \~ Marcia Sharabi ### This is not how the story is going to end URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/this-is-not-how-the-story-is-going-to-end/ Last updated: 2025-09-08T03:30:46.000Z It may not be easy and the path may not be clear, or you may have to create the path yourself, but there's always at least one other way to go than the path you're currently on, if you don't like where you're headed. \~ Andrew Scheurich You can choose to dream about it or do something about your dream. It's all about your desire, your will to change the climax of the story. You can only have the power to make things better if you try hard enough. Just don't ever give up. \~ Mary Spears ### People will come and go in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-will-come-and-go-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-09-06T02:30:32.000Z **I am very good to myself but that doesn't mean putting out for someone who shows no respect. That is part of being good to myself! \~ Carrie Parrish** Be good to yourself and share your goodness then you will experience life. We don't have to pay a price to love our self! ### Unexpressed emotion will never die URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/unexpressed-emotion-will-never-die/ Last updated: 2025-09-04T03:30:37.000Z You have to feel your feelings in order to let them go. This does not mean you have to run your mouth or tell the world. It can be a private matter between you and God. \~ Anne Lewellen Always be yourself and say what you have to say. People who know & love you for being you will understand & tolerate your logic. Being direct does not mean you have to be rude nor ugly. Everybody has a right to have their say, regardless. Stay "you" and be "you" because "you" matter too. \~ Jo Ingram-Peters For so long I turned anger in on my self - denying that I was really angry with someone or something else I think I turned it on myself because it was more acceptable than turning it outward. It was stunning to realize how much anger I had with others that I never admitted or expressed. Many times extremes don't offer a very good solution. Love, understanding, compassion and forgiveness (for ourselves and others) is where the answer lies. Our answer to those unexpressed emotions is to abide in Lord. He will help us handle those difficult emotions that we don't think we are capable of and He will lead us down the right path if we let Him. \~ Barb Saxton ### First simple Rule in Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/first-simple-rule-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-09-02T02:30:48.000Z What's truly meant for you, won't pass you by! The universe is powerful enough to bring in what you need. Never give up and to always try . It does not mean you will always succeed, but at least you made your best effort. \~ Terri Du The point is that you tried. If you don't try you will never succeed. You may not be successful every time, but you will never be successful if you don't even try. \~ Jennifer Rasmussen ### When you complain, you make yourself a victim URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-complain-you-make-yourself-a-victim/ Last updated: 2025-08-30T02:30:29.000Z Lessons repeat themselves till they are learned. Never accept anything that makes you feel bad about yourself, always take small steps to improve bad situations, life changes aren't quick and take thought and courage! \~ George Pajonas If you are not careful, you'll make a habit out of walking away instead of staying and changing the situation. ### What is needed in all kinds of relationships? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/what-is-needed-in-all-kinds-of-relationships/ Last updated: 2025-08-28T02:30:16.000Z Relationship means two ways as we clap with two hands not with one hand. Means co operation, understanding and caring. \~ Sajeda Manzoor No communication is what ruins everything. If you can't speak better stay single. \~ Leanne Hamilton ### Don't waste your time saving a place in your life for someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-waste-your-time-saving-a-place-in-your-life-for-someone/ Last updated: 2025-08-25T20:30:07.000Z There's no excuse of being too "busy." If you have time to log onto Facebook then you have time to send a text message saying "Hello". Unless, family and true friends. No matter how much time passes, it is still like just yesterday when we talk. Life is busy, you know when you are in someone's heart. They do not have to be in your daily life to matter. \~ Faye Hamilton It's really not that difficult to show people that you care. It's not even about how busy or far away you might be, it's about how you make them feel when you're around them or talk to them on the phone. Friends, family, love. It's easy to show them you care. Unless you just really don't care. Life's too short. Live it, love it and be around those that do too. \~ Allison Hunter I avoid contact with those who display annoyance or make up excuses to get off the phone, such as, oh we gotta go, going out to eat again. So I don't call people like that as it isn't worth being rebuffed, whether intentional or not. Life is more peaceful being surrounded by those who want your company. \~ Nora Coombs You can't just sit and wait until people appear on your doorstep. You need to express the genuine interest in the people around you without forcing yourself on them, then, if it's meant to be, you may connect on a deeper level, or not. Go with the flow! \~ Wilma Dekker ### Never let the loyalty you show others become slavery URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-let-the-loyalty-you-show-others-become-slavery/ Last updated: 2025-08-24T02:30:35.000Z Most people do mistake kindness for weakness and they take full advantage of it. Be who you are and what you can do. Story of my life. Happens even within your family. People who should've love you and nurture you used you and abused you. Took away your rights, your voice, your pride and your self-esteem. Even the presents that been given from other people. \~ Aggie Garibyan ### Three simple rules in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/three-simple-rules-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-08-22T02:30:42.000Z The point is to keep yourself in motion and not lose hope. The fact is that we can only put our efforts wholeheartedly. The reward of our actions doesn't come by our will or want. Life is not logical! \~ Jariv Racer ### It's your road & yours alone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/its-your-road-yours-alone/ Last updated: 2025-08-20T02:30:13.000Z They walk it with you and tell you how to do it the right way. No one can make your decision for you. Gather your facts make a decision and hope for the best because standing still only adds to you struggle. \~ Cheryl Manning No one can walk my road for me but they can walk beside me and be my friend. \~ Kathy Nelson ### If you live for people's acceptance URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-live-for-peoples-acceptance/ Last updated: 2025-08-18T02:30:54.000Z I'm at a age where I don't care what people feel,think or believe about me. \~ Lucille Roberts It shouldn't be what you live for, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to want to feel accepted. Accept yourself first. \~ Francisco Curiel ### No matter how much money you make URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-much-money-you-make/ Last updated: 2025-08-16T02:30:24.000Z It's always quality over quantity. Time spent with your loved ones is a great factor towards happiness, that money can't buy. You should still stay motivated and get all your priorities in order for an easier life, especially for the years when you are retired. An amazing life partner, love, happiness and good health is what we all need for a lifetime of beautiful memories. \~ Victoria Lukasiewicz You can't base your own happiness on other people. You can be happy with family and friends, but when you go home and are just laying down alone, will you still be happy? You have to find happiness on your own, even if some of your friends desert you, because true happiness is knowing that your life is blessed even when you're home alone. \~ Justin Moore ### When everyone would expect you to fall apart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-everyone-would-expect-you-to-fall-apart/ Last updated: 2025-08-14T02:30:29.000Z It's ok to fall apart. As long as you recover. Get back up and keep going. Holding in emotion is not strength. Showing emotion is. It takes more guts to show vulnerability and accept your limitations and ask for help if you need it. \~ Nick Griffin I got it and proud of me to stay as me and going to keep on moving forward and upwards. Life is beautiful! \~ Anthony Mcgee ### Someone make you see the sun where you once saw clouds URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-make-you-see-the-sun-where-you-once-saw-clouds/ Last updated: 2025-08-12T02:30:09.000Z Wish there were more, to help more who are in an unfortunate situation and struggling to survive from day to day. My family moto is, " Who believes in the Lord shall be protected ". Now I am not pushing religion on anyone, but surely we must all have hope and faith in something that we believe will help see us through from day to day. \~ William Sneddon There are people whom we meet by chance and they had impact on our lives more than people we have with lived for years. ### Stop giving other people the responsibility for the way you feel URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-giving-other-people-the-responsibility-for-the-way-you-feel/ Last updated: 2025-08-10T02:30:32.000Z How people treat you certainly does affect how you feel. It is so confusing. I will continue to blame mean people for making me feel bad. I will continue to appreciate nice people for making me feel good. I understand that in the big picture I control my attitude and thus my general mood, but since we interact with people, we are necessarily effected by these people. \~ Donna Bazaes ### Everything you need will come to you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/everything-you-need-will-come-to-you/ Last updated: 2025-08-08T02:30:46.000Z Have faith in yourself and be positive in every phase of life. Magic will happen soon. All things happen the way they should, even though you may not always understand why. I am so blessed and loved I never take anything granted for. What is to come will come when the time is right and one of the most beautiful thing about this is what a wonderful surprise it will be. \~ Carla Simmons When my time it right it will happen. It always happens when I least expect it. When I am in need of something it will draw me to it. Timing! Patience! Gratefulness! Thankfulness! It's all priceless! \~ Crystal Wade ### Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stress-can-destroy-much-more-than-just-our-physical-health/ Last updated: 2025-08-06T02:30:55.000Z Stress free to be better in health to enjoy abundant life be happy & live one day at a time trusting God. Stress can lead to life threatening illnesses. Take time to unwind and smell the roses. The stress caused by others has drain my energy and faith in people. Stress is how a person responds to any kind of demand or threat. {Since your autonomic nervous system doesn’t distinguish between daily stressors and life-threatening events, if you’re stressed over an argument with a friend, a traffic jam, or a mountain of bills, your body can still react as if you’re facing a life-or-death situation. When you repeatedly experience the fight or flight stress response in your daily life, it can raise blood pressure, suppress the immune system, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, speed up the aging process and leave you vulnerable to a host of mental and emotional problems.} In the quote, Mr. Glassman is expressing just that. \~ Brigitte Nicole My self respect and self confidence has improved because of being outside in sunshine and working on little projects, exercising, surrounding myself with positive people and forgiving (not forgetting the pain) of those who have hurt me. Life gets better if you believe in yourself and have spirituality. Get more sleep, turn off all electronic gadgets and eat good, wholesome foods. You deserve the best no matter what your level of stress is. Decrease your stress and improve your endurance of stress for yourself. \~ Bertie Lehman When I'm happy I feel like I can do anything. When I'm stressed I am not focused and lose steam. I say anything to stressing walk away from it. Life is short be happy whatever it takes. \~ Cindy Goslin If you can do one thing find out what helps you reduce stress, minimize anger and eliminate resentment, find it. These three things I believe have had a significant impact on my health. \~ John Ballard ### Always get up when you fall in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-get-up-when-you-fall-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-08-04T02:30:58.000Z Mirror mirror on the wall. I'll prove to be the strongest of all! \~ Madeeha Qasim We will have to get on the finish line, no matter how slow my walks become, I knew I will be able to finish the race, up to the goal. Finish Line! \~ Anna Liza Getting up after every fall make us see we don't want to be on the ground and we have to strive to achieve our goal doesn't matter how hard it may seem. \~ Debra Joseph ### One day you will be at the place you always wanted to be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-day-you-will-be-at-the-place-you-always-wanted-to-be/ Last updated: 2025-08-02T02:30:08.000Z Each of us has his place under the sun, you may not know it but no matter how long and rough the road maybe it will lead you there. \~ Emilio Barbo Jr. I am an older woman and the place I always wanted to be is to see all the beautiful places in the world ever since I was a little girl and now, I traveled and see the world. Everything is possible and all the places in the world that I have been to, are all special to me. Dreams do come true! \~ Sonia Arriola ### Good things are going to happen URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/good-things-are-going-to-happen/ Last updated: 2025-06-30T02:30:27.000Z Go against the flow and you make things happen. Take life as it is. The more you get to it seriously the more it gets complicated. Good things are already happening in my life. ### Never apologize for how much love you have to give URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-apologize-for-how-much-love-you-have-to-give/ Last updated: 2025-06-28T02:30:18.000Z Never cry for the person who hurts you. Just smile and say : thank you for giving me a chance to find someone better than you. \~ Cleopatra Cleo Sometimes you have true emotions for a person who doesn't care about you, so hurts you a lot, but at least learned a lesson. \~ Ahmed Omer Peace and happiness! They aren't ready to receive, so I'll just love them from a distance. \~ Willie Reynoso I will never apologize for how much love I have to give to someone. They either want it and except it or they don't. It will be their loss! Someone else out there would gladly except it. Life goes on. Live, Love and Learn! \~ Peggy Sander People don't usually understand you because they see the world as they are! ### When someone treats you like an option URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-treats-you-like-an-option/ Last updated: 2025-06-26T02:30:25.000Z You get a point where you're tired of telling someone how to treat you. If they haven't learn by now, take your energy elsewhere. I did with a friend. I tried to see the good and after walking away, did I realize the negative impact she had. She was the total opposite of me and I couldn't wrap my head over the lack of empathy versus my abundance of it, then I realized she wasn't my friend for who I was, I was a filler to stroke her ego. She loved throwing me down the river and I walked away. Best decision made. My life has turned 360 degrees since. \~ Cori Chaney Always love yourself enough to leave because staying gives them your permission to treat you like an option. \~ Denise Hecht ### Everything is going to turn out better than okay URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/everything-is-going-to-turn-out-better-than-okay/ Last updated: 2025-06-24T02:30:36.000Z I'm going through hell but today good things will happen this night. God can do miracles. Nothing is difficult for Him. \~ Beth Waweru One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the fact that we don't have to wait until tonight or tomorrow for things to be better. Each and every moment is a fresh opportunity to feel His Joy and His Love! \~ Kathy Stimer Remember life is like the weather it's always changing. Things may be difficult now but it will get better, just stay strong! \~ Joann Reidy ### You will survive whatever is coming on your way URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-will-survive-whatever-is-coming-on-your-way/ Last updated: 2025-06-22T02:30:46.000Z Trust yourself and you will survive no matter what may come along and as long as you keep doing what is good in your heart. I'm just hoping what I'm going through. These past few years will end soon then I can say I survived and I can move on with life with a breeze. \~ Mary Voss You are your best advocate. Trust yourself, your instincts and God. ### No one is born hating another person URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-one-is-born-hating-another-person/ Last updated: 2025-06-20T02:30:11.000Z Unfortunately, hate comes just as naturally to human beings as love. It's which side you embrace. \~ Michael Kostka Hatred never comes naturally. It's only human hearts filled with hatred who channelize pure hearts to hate and then that becomes a habit before making any opinion about others. \~ Chinmayee Dash Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. \~ Nelson Mandela ### Cutting some people out of your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/cutting-some-people-out-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-06-18T02:30:52.000Z You can love someone and forgive them a 1000 times over, but cutting them out of your daily life does not mean hate, you can still love them and forgive, but one must move on sometimes. \~ Joyce Marles Sometimes the ones who you love the most are the ones that hurt you the most and are the ones most toxic for you to live connected to. It's like cutting the umbilical cord. You cut that cord, you are not attached and you have to so you can grow and breath and live with positive because sometimes people just can stay connected in a way that they keep feeding from you in a negative way and or physically and mentally abuse way. Draining you of everything from the inside out. You are the keeper of your own being, you need to make positive choices for you. \~ Lynn DaSilva Some of these toxic people are so unhappy with themselves that this is why they treat their loved ones in this way. No excuse but you could bend over backwards for these people and nothing will change until they get help. \~ Sandy Bowman There are some people that want to bring you down and ruin your confidence/peace/joy because they are insecure or jealous. We should distance ourselves temporarily but still be ready to be there if they ever come around from their ego trip or if they need help coming back to their true selves. \~ Parvina Shodieva I forgave, forgave, forgave, turned the other cheek, did everything humanly possible. Some times people are just too mean and nasty to be in your life. When "loved ones" keep treating you terrible, sometimes you have to eliminate them from your life. \~ Cindy Rahberger ### The only truly happy relationships URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-only-truly-happy-relationships/ Last updated: 2025-06-16T02:30:20.000Z Even when my man is thousands of miles apart from me. I feel more loved than my last 9 year relationship. \~ Sheryl Pettey The bad things that the negative it's the only thing that stands out more. You can do a million things right and one thing wrong. The rest is history, but God will forgive if you have faith in him. \~ Jesus Gonzalez The only truly happy relationships are ones where each person sees the best & brings out the best in the other person. That only comes naturally & effortlessly from love. Anything else becomes about what your personal price or motivation is. Then you will literally being paying every day for the rest of your life. These were very wise words from an extraordinary person. The older I get the more this is absolutely true. When it is not pure of mind & heart every distraction in life will be necessary. Wisdom is such an appreciated gift, thank you for the wise words. Life is just too short & precious. \~ Tara Zarry ### Choice Today I choose to be motivated, not manipulated URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/choice-today-i-choose-to-be-motivated-not-manipulated/ Last updated: 2025-06-14T02:30:40.000Z We always have a choice. This determines how our minutes of each day turn out and how good we are at making the right choices, Why blame others? \~ John Hill I am in the process of cutting all toxic influences out of my life. It is painful but necessary, like removing a gangrenous limb to save your life. It hurts for a while, but then you adapt. Quit my job with a toxic boss who stressed me out so much that I barely slept for over 3 years. Planning to distance myself from relatives you only call me when they need a favour and the rest of the time don't remember I'm alive, never thank me when I put myself out to help them, but complain that I should do more!! Keep strong and don't let anyone distract you from your goal. \~ Yvonne Jones ### Life is an Echo URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/life-is-an-echo/ Last updated: 2025-06-12T02:30:45.000Z We are all the same when it comes to our emotions and our range of reactions to those emotions. We are all baptized by the fires of life as we live and have our spirits refined by it. It becomes a matter of whether we want to see others as monsters or as people and they will view us the same in turn. Not right away, because people become cemented in their paths and lines of thinking and it takes effort and is often painful to yourself to help them through it. This is always true, though not always easy to see for what people have made of the world. You have to take into account that what other people give you is their own projection and not just an echo toward you or your choices. There are echoes and then there are reactions, but the echoes are stronger. The way our minds work may be different, but we tend to come to the same results as others regardless when it comes down to the results. This shows similarities in how we think even if we don't fully understand it. We only remain different due to our influences in life as we grow and to understand that is to understand that you are no more or less than each of those people out there still lost and confused; in fact it sounds like you might still be lost and confused, yourself. You'd be any single one of them if you had lived their life; because they became what they became personality-wise based on their influences and their own individual talents. Your talents could raise you to the same heights, but with your own flavor. When someones perception is negative, you have to work harder to break through it with love so they can see the value and strength of it. All of life is a fight and equal for all people. It becomes how you go about facing that fight. \~ Christopher Brown What you hate in others often exists in yourself. Those that don't agree need to take a closer look. I had to and its not very pretty. \~ Paddy Barrett We are all mirrors, some mirrors are clear and clean and some are foggy and mat. Try to meditate on this and discover the truth for yourself. ### Train your mind to see the good in every situation URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/train-your-mind-to-see-the-good-in-every-situation/ Last updated: 2025-06-10T02:30:55.000Z The Sun will rise tomorrow! You too can do it. Only you have control of your own thoughts and brain! It is the only logical way; focusing on the negative will never lead you to anything other than circular, useless and/or remorseful action or inaction. \~ Tania Daykin Overcome bad habits requires change the way you think of things, change a negative thought to a positive one, your subconscious mind has no choice but to act upon the conscious suggestion. \~ Lou Covillo ### When you have to start compromising yourself for someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-have-to-start-compromising-yourself-for-someone/ Last updated: 2025-06-08T02:30:28.000Z It's hard to walk away sometimes, but then you're glad you did. Be strong and stand up for your moral values. Changing people around you will not work so long as you continue your general behavior. It's time to change yourself and stop compromising yourself for others. ### The most powerful thing you can do for yourself URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-powerful-thing-you-can-do-for-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-06-06T02:30:59.000Z When you forgive somebody it is freedom for yourself to let go your anger! Forgiving ones self takes more then most realize. We are quick to forgive others but very rarely do we forgive ourselves. \~ Matt Crawford ### Negative people need drama like oxygen URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/negative-people-need-drama-like-oxygen/ Last updated: 2025-06-04T02:30:02.000Z Stepping back breathing enjoying the little things in life. Just being grateful for even the dust in out house, accepting is so awesome, the dust will wait. I took 50 years to get it! \~ Sandi Duncan Negative people have reason to be negative. I'm realistic, in the world I live in is not easy to be positive. Negative people are people too, human above all. \~ Ângela Amorim Negative people create most of their own problems through their drama. Drama is unrealistic half truths and lies and when someone lets drama into their lives they actually start believing their own lies. Thus creating all kinds of problems for them selves as well as friends and family. People allowing drama in their life lose their ability to live and adjust to life in a responsible manner. \~ Dan Arnold ### Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure for love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-looking-outside-for-scraps-of-pleasure-for-love/ Last updated: 2025-06-02T02:30:30.000Z It depends what your going after could be good things and those good things could lead you to who you may be inside eventually. Being kind, showing love and not expecting any in return, doing things that you feel strong about without wanting anything back can eventually make you see what real matters and what real makes your heart string and shine. \~ Christine Maslowski I would not stop looking for outside pleasures but I will remind myself that they are to enhance the life I am lucky to have. \~ Cornelia Caudill ### When another person makes you suffer URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-another-person-makes-you-suffer/ Last updated: 2025-05-30T02:30:09.000Z You can only help a person that's willing to accept it though. \~ Brazier Sammi If someone suffers that doesn't give him the right to make the other suffer too. \~ Richa Kumar Wicked people get pleasure by causing pain to others. Good people don't do that.If they really need help then,they can open up about it to their close ones or better consult a professional. But abusing others for your own misery isn't acceptable. \~ Srusti Jena I wish I could feel that way about some people that have bullied and mistreated me in my life. Although I feel sad for them, I'm not sure if I feel that I want to help them. I don't even think they can be helped. They are so toxic and destructive that there's more of a risk for them to pull you into the abyss of their misery than you having any significant influence in helping them or them trying to change. \~ Mandana Simone You can only empathize so much for some people without going insane. A person should always know and admit sooner than later for their own good as hard as it may be when it stops being relevant to their well being what someone else needs imho. \~ Maríanna Jóhannsdóttir ONLY YOU CAN 'MAKE YOU SUFFER!' Other's can hurt you physically, mentally or verbally, but only you have the power to control whether or not what they do, makes you suffer. Choosing not to give away that power might initially be difficult - circumstances taking into consideration - so keep a strong hold on what decisions you make and thoughts you have so no one can make you suffer, not even you. \~ Aline'n Paul Keary ### A person's most useful asset URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-persons-most-useful-asset/ Last updated: 2025-05-28T02:30:47.000Z KNOWLEDGE is very important but you need something else that not everybody have, a compassionate and loving heart. That is the most important asset! Love is the only thing that really matters. Some will never find it, but it still must be a lifelong quest. It is our real purpose. In the end, it is all any of us will or can have. Everything else is secondary. However, we would not know this without knowledge or wisdom. Life is amazing! \~ David Flint ### Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-ruin-a-good-today-by-thinking-about-a-bad-yesterday/ Last updated: 2025-05-26T02:30:23.000Z Don't look back, you're not going that way. Don't just think of yesterday but make it a lesson not to do again the same thing and think of how to get rid of it not to ruin your day. Be blessed everyday and smile! \~ Vicky Bumanglag ### The more respect you have for yourself URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-more-respect-you-have-for-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-05-24T02:30:34.000Z Being positive for yourself is the best feeling ever the feeling of being alive. If you have respect for yourself you have respect for others. I wish more of our young women could understand this, they think without a man on their arm they are worth nothing, this is not true. Young women you are worth so much, and can go so far. BE TRUE TO YOURSELF! \~ Judy Rucker I truly wish more young women and older ones displayed greater respect for themselves and other females. When we honor and respect ourselves, men can not disrespect, dishonor or demean our character, beliefs and values. Be the best version of yourself that you can possibly be 365 days a year. \~ Kay McGlothen ### No matter how impossible or unimaginable something may seem URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-impossible-or-unimaginable-something-may-seem/ Last updated: 2025-05-22T02:30:43.000Z What is the impossible to someone who can do anything they set their mind to? Sounds like today's next challenge! Bring on the unattainable and it will be mine. \~ Charlie Gorney ### Positive thoughts are not enough URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/positive-thoughts-are-not-enough/ Last updated: 2025-05-20T02:30:22.000Z Actions tell the true story. Thoughts are just things floating occasionally through our minds and they are never permanent. \~ Cindy Cartee Practice every day and eventually it will become a habit. It is worth noting, a positive thought is thousands times more powerful than a negative thought. Once you can shift your mind to a positive vibration, you will attract more good things into your life. \~ Colin Sansom People talk the talk but when it is time to bring words to a positive action, it is not always accomplished. Positivity is like a domino effect, if you have a positive mind, your positive thoughts lead to positive feelings which lead to positive actions if you're missing one of the 3 then you need to reevaluate because chances are you don't truly have a positive mind. \~ Summer Valdez ### You can't always count on others to respect your feelings URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cant-always-count-on-others-to-respect-your-feelings/ Last updated: 2025-05-18T02:30:12.000Z I choose to walk away from poison and anyone who supports poison. \~ Stephanie Cullen You can walk away from family. It doesn't mean you stop loving them. However you will never be able to stop feeling shame or be able to respect yourself by allowing someone else to throw their guilt and shame onto you and in the midst of their brokenness being emotionally abusive towards you because of their own guilt, shame and brokenness. This can be a very vicious cycle and can affect many generations. I have chosen to break the cycle. It's amazing the more emotionally healthy you get the more the broken people in your family unit and even friends don't want anything to do with you. It can get quite lonely. However, God provides others in your life to replace those people that you have always so desperately needed but they are just to broken to be what you need. \~ Kristen Hinze Treating people how you wish to be treated doesn't always work, especially with people who think they should be treated better than how they treat others. \~ Libby Dee Surround yourself with people who are positive and who look for the good in others. We can't control what people think of us but we can control how we react to them and when it comes right down to it, that's all that matters anyway. \~ Peg Glover ### In a relationship one must not seek validation URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/in-a-relationship-one-must-not-seek-validation/ Last updated: 2025-05-16T02:30:50.000Z I'm done asking for validation. Either you want me or you don't and if you do you will always make sure I know that. \~ Heather Dean Know the only "Validation" one needs is self "Validation". When you seek it from others you will be disappointed. Be secure with you and life will be great. \~ Cindy Gowell If you need validation from others it means you need to look at your own self esteem issues. It means you're co-dependent. Expecting others to validate your worth isn't fair to them. They don't owe you your self esteem. \~ Kaster Penny ### An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/an-invisible-red-thread-connects-those-who-are-destined-to-meet/ Last updated: 2025-05-14T02:30:54.000Z On my left hand, I'm connected with my husband and on my right hand, I'm connected with my Lord. I was destined to meet both and our bonds shall never be broken. \~ Tena Jones ### If you aren't being treated with love and respect URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-arent-being-treated-with-love-and-respect/ Last updated: 2025-05-12T02:30:02.000Z No one should take abuse. Walk away from those people! **Nobody should suffer abusive relationship treatment. We are bigger than that. It should not define us or make us powerless! \~ Barbra Riga** Stay foot, be what you are, do your best show them that you are worthy enough. Half may not believe in you, but the other half will consider you as the most valuable one. \~ Catalina Tolentino ### For every positive change you make in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/for-every-positive-change-you-make-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-05-10T02:30:11.000Z It doesn't even have to be a huge change, just start with something small and move on from there. Change is good! \~ Kristin Zaninovich Sometimes it works out that way, sometimes it don't. It depends on the people/person you're dealing with in your life at the time, but definitely change yourself first. \~ Amanda Alford ### Soulmate is not always your lover URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/soulmate-is-not-always-your-lover/ Last updated: 2025-05-08T02:30:03.000Z I've had a soulmate friend for almost 30 years. His wife of 20+ years doesn't like for him to talk to me even though it isn't like that for either of us. I respect her because they're married, but if he and I are in the same room, we just sort of gravitate right to each other. \~ Beth Phillips Soulmate is not always your spouse, nor does it need to be that your spouse be your soulmate. Your spouse is your best Friend in life through thick and thin. A soulmate is one who's soul is mated to another's soul. Mate as in friend not sex. My ex husband , who has been my best friend since I was 16 is my soulmate. It was not until we were divorced and still very close in that we could sense the others state of being from miles away among other things that I came to realize he was my soulmate. I was fortunate to have found , married and best friended my soulmate. It is not a requirement for marriage however and personally I prefer it as a friendship having had it both ways. Very lucky are we who find our soulmate whom ever they be in our life . My cat Simba was also my soulmate , my sister called him my familiar. Our bond was beyond words. \~ Kimberly Ascenio ### People change so that you can learn to let go URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-change-so-that-you-can-learn-to-let-go/ Last updated: 2025-05-06T02:30:33.000Z Trust no one but yourself and God! Ultimately, it is only you, your inner voice you must learn to hear, listen to and trust. It is the one which will lead you where you're supposed to be. Too often we second guess ourselves and listen to what others say. \~ Rhonda Bourne Everything happens for a reason, good cause we learn from our mistakes as well most of all we never stop learning from others so there's someone indeed who's trustworthy. \~ Evelyn Guerzon ### The minute you stopped caring about what other people thought URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-minute-you-stopped-caring-about-what-other-people-thought/ Last updated: 2025-05-04T02:30:44.000Z As long as you take ownership of your actions and you do not infringe on the rights of others! Going up in any stairs of our life, we move upward or downward be it's an escalator or elevator, every decisions we make at any moment of our life is free as long as we know what is wrong and what is right and assuming all that we are doing now is for the better, no one is ought to be responsible of the outcome of what we have done because we are free to do and decide what we want to be in our life. \~ Catalina Tolentino ### Don't just teach kids how to count URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-just-teach-kids-how-to-count/ Last updated: 2025-05-02T02:30:04.000Z Adults need to learn that, more than kids do! Start as you mean to go on. Show the next generation how to (just in case they never had family who knew what to teach them from the beginning) then the kids can teach their parents. Never too late to start learning for anyone. \~ Tamsyn Van Gelderen This kind of teaching is best taught by parents and family members, but most adults nowadays also need these lessons. Very sad to see how a large portion of society's moral and value system has been flushed. \~ Cyndi Fiedler ### Better to be slapped with the truth URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/better-to-be-slapped-with-the-truth/ Last updated: 2025-04-30T00:30:14.000Z It's better to accept bitter truth which hurts than to be pampered with sweet lie because someday truth wins over lie. \~ Geetu Pahuja Lies are unhealthy and a symbol of low self esteem. The hardest part is to have that person admit about the lie and they still deny it even though you've already proven that is was all true. \~ Shirley Lozon ### Secrets and lies kill relationships URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/secrets-and-lies-kill-relationships/ Last updated: 2025-04-28T00:30:39.000Z Don't let this be you. Trust is everything! What you do in the dark always come to light! An honest person is the one who knows love. All of us are going in the direction where love beacon us, when negative living takes its toll and forces us to change direction, for we are all here to learn how to be truly human by going through gamuts of difficult situations from one lifetime after another until our divinity is the only thing to experience and unconditional love the only mode of living we operate from. \~ Goyito Bajamundi Never trust anyone who lies and cheats. A liar will always be found out! You can always tell when someone lies to you, they won't even look you in the eyes! When you tell a lie there's always someone who knows the truth. ### If you have to choose between being kind & being right URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-have-to-choose-between-being-kind-being-right/ Last updated: 2025-04-26T00:30:47.000Z I prefer to be kind, not for my ego to win. \~ Brigitte Nicole Let them tell you you are wrong. You know and God knows that in your own heart, you are right. That's all what matters. Being kind is the ultimate gesture to demonstrate and give to others and to yourself. Just know your boundaries. Just make sure when you say yes, you are not saying no to you. Sometimes it's better to be kind to yourself and let go the need to be right, rather than engage in peace destroying stressful situations. My peace is worth more to me than my ego's need to prove someone wrong. We all live in our own realities. \~ Kevin Fichtler ### Some of the best days of your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-of-the-best-days-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-04-24T00:30:24.000Z Hope is only source of inspiration in our life. When people believe it's never going to get better, they loose all hope and when people loose hope, bad things can happen. Keep hope alive in your life. \~ Susan Gottlieb Life without hope is the road that often leads to depression, where sadly many get stuck. Hope is to know that there is something good just around the corner, tonight or tomorrow. It's there waiting! ### The strongest people make time to help others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-strongest-people-make-time-to-help-others/ Last updated: 2025-04-22T00:30:05.000Z Be happy and feel blessed because God is answering that person's prayer through you. Sometimes helping others will help us feel better. The best way to solve your own problems is to help others solve theirs. ### Appreciate those who are there at all times with you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/appreciate-those-who-are-there-at-all-times-with-you/ Last updated: 2025-04-20T00:30:42.000Z Sunshine friends are a dime a dozen but the rainy day friends are true. \~ Anita Popplewell True friends take time to be there for you no matter what. For the ones that do I am truly blessed and thankful. Friends that make an effort, not when they feel it's only convenient for them or when they have problems. Real friends are there all the time. I am the type of person that even if someone hurt me to the core I would still be there for them no matter what because in this world no two people are the same and everyone makes mistakes. \~ Janet Pipis You don't lose true friends, etc. when things don't go their own way you just find out which ones really are true. ### Happiness is about loving what you have URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/happiness-is-about-loving-what-you-have/ Last updated: 2025-04-18T00:30:10.000Z Just keep love of all and peace in your heart. I am grateful for everything in my life. Thank You God! \~ Denni Rojas Once you knew its true happiness, keep and treasure it with love. Finding one is rare so take care of it and cherish to no end. The reason most people are unhappy is simply because they don't appreciate what they have. By being grateful and content on what we have right now. We are able to become relaxed and enjoy the present moment as it should be expressed, with peace and love. \~ Jim Long ### Is your goal in life to be filthy rich? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/is-your-goal-in-life-to-be-filthy-rich/ Last updated: 2025-04-16T00:30:21.000Z I wished everyone is rich in their relationship to God, thats how He are created us, living close to God and ruling out his righteous ways. \~ Inraal Tired If you want to be rich, be rich in love and everything will be well with you. Nothing can be good without love. Richness in any sphere of life is possible with positive attitude! ### You have to let go of what is gone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-have-to-let-go-of-what-is-gone/ Last updated: 2025-04-14T00:30:47.000Z Just think of the things coming ahead and never mind the past ones. Forget your past failures, bad choices, heartaches and injustices. Living constantly with regrets about your past, grieving your past choices and failures and not being able to forgive and forget who hurt us and unnecessarily punish and handicap us for being who God wants us to be. Let go of the burdens and embrace & enjoy whatever is ahead of us. \~ Jesusa Martin The emotional baggage has to be lost as each new experience deserves a new start. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow never comes. Today is what is always here. Your choice to make the best of it or not. You always need to for you to find your own happiness. You have to let go of what is gone and take good care of what you have right now. \~ Jeff Crystallyne ### Give it to God & go to sleep URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/give-it-to-god-go-to-sleep/ Last updated: 2025-04-12T00:30:14.000Z Just be God- centered and no worries. I really believe this; however, give it to him after you have used the gift he gave us of the ability to think (brain) and his guidance no longer solve your worries is when you give to God and fall asleep. \~ Susan Lopez I gave up everything to him, whatever happen he will be by my side and holding my hand, thank you for all the blessing, and trials you don't give up on us. \~ Jocelyn Angeles ### One of the cruelest things you can do to another person URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-the-cruelest-things-you-can-do-to-another-person/ Last updated: 2025-04-10T00:30:15.000Z Don't worry! Karma is sending someone else in your life to treat you in the same way if you do it to others. Karma is going to pay a visit to some heartless people and they will ultimately savor the same fruit. We can't control how people respond but we can control how we react. It's really painful but we need this experience to be emotionally stable. We can't be grumpy just because we weren't treasured on our terms. Let's not let our emotions rule us. The world is already full of uncaring people. They also weren't cared for and have chosen to be uncaring to pass the hurt/rejection they felt to others and to project a tough personality. \~ Cecille Celestial Love and family are precious. In the blink of an eye a person can be gone. Don't pretend. If you allow this to go on for a long period of time and then, when you express the pain they have caused you, they pretend, once again, that it was never their intention to hurt you. Don't play games with other people's hearts! \~ Dawn Hixson ### The best kind of people in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-best-kind-of-people-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-04-08T00:30:09.000Z The people who help you become a better person, care about you. They let you keep your personality, but they help mold your character. They are special. \~ Zer Yang Thank God for those people because they are with you through the bad times and the good; while the others move on to the next big thing before you can catch your breath. \~ Pam Roush We are blessed to have kind people in our life and also bless those people who pretend they care about you because they need something from you. \~ Emily Mcgrath I have never seen so many people that's your so called friend's, just to get what ever from you & also STEAL from you. You know deep down who broke in & steals from you. Confront them, they say I wouldn't do that to you, I lov U! Your my friend, Well people like that I don't need in my life, got rid of the low lives and they all can kill my assists. \~ Judy Massenzo Always careful to stay away from agenda people. They act as your best friends as long as they can squeeze everything out of you, to fulfill their well planned agenda! \~ Rita Singer ### Why relationships are harder nowadays? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/why-relationships-are-harder-nowadays/ Last updated: 2025-04-06T00:30:05.000Z We need to get back to basics. Meaningful conversations, face to face. That why there are so many misunderstandings. Communications are 93% non verbal and 7% verbal. Relationships have become disposable. It is sad. People say it takes a strong person to walk away. Truth is, it takes a stronger person to stay, to forgive and to rebuild. \~ Amy Walker No one wants to try, nobody has time to put in some effort...Nobody is perfect and nowadays if someone doesn't like something, they throw it out! \~ Cyndi Maria All relationships have problems. It just depends on whether or not you two are strong enough to get through them together. Social Media has changed the way we live and interact, it can also have changes on our mentality. First, when we communicate through social media, we tend to trust the people on the other end of the communication, so our messages tend to be more open. Second, our social connections are not strengthened as much through social media as they are face-to-face, so we don’t tend to deepen our relationships—they tend to exist in the status quo. Last, we tend to follow and interact with people who agree with our points of view, so we aren’t getting the same diversity of viewpoints as we’ve gotten in the past. “Certainly, with every new communication technology comes changes in the style and type of interpersonal communication,” SADLY according to Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media. By focusing so much of our time and psychic energy on these less meaningful relationships, our most important connections, relationship in a real world surely weaken. Social media and technology combined are slowly becoming the number one cause of problems and arguments in relationships. It’s no coincidence that lot of relationship ends with "breakup" and "divorce". \~ Eliyahu Ezra Face to face conversation is hard to find in a relationship these days. So many distractions in the relationship! Privacy is hard to find in a relationship. Really being there for someone requires no distractions! Listening and trying to understand were the other person is coming from. Without going hold on a minute my phone is ringing and I have to get back to that text, etc. Just put the technology down and stop the addiction with it and enjoy your life being free from added drama. I pray for me and those in America going threw such situations! There are ups and downs. More traveled roads and least traveled. May there be more ups and people who stop following the most traveled and go their own ways. Don't follow the crowd. Sometimes the crowd leads you the wrong way. Stand up for what is right and it doesn't matter if you stand alone. I would rather stand alone than follow a crowd who just follows a crowd in the wrong direction. I know what is right and will stand by the old fashioned tradition everyone wants to change with all this technology. Who is by your side in person is what really matters and taking life slowly with out rushing is the best road to travel in a new, yet different traveled old road/ From a young, but old soul myself. \~ Crystal Wade ### One of the most incredible thing you can ever hear URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-the-most-incredible-thing-you-can-ever-hear/ Last updated: 2025-04-04T00:30:11.000Z To encourage others is the most wonderful gift you can give for it feeds their soul and yours. Life enhancing moments. Offer a thank you; speak with a smile when telephoning someone (it can be 'seen' by the listener); pause before you answer someone (your comment may break a friendship); take time out in silence to think of a distressed friend at least once a day or more. Small differences but they "work". \~ Maggie Jeens In life, we should as human beings appreciate each other, not let anger or aggression take over. \~ Sheila Puri A word of appreciation can make a heart be filled with encouragement. Appreciation is a great source of motivation. ### Family is anyone who loves you unconditionally URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/family-is-anyone-who-loves-you-unconditionally/ Last updated: 2025-04-02T00:30:42.000Z Does my dog count as family? They give the most unconditional love. \~ Patrick Sherwood Family is the unity of heart and mind, not blood and a home is not the people or family we born into, but others we meet along the way! \~ Lee Wilson Love is something you willingly give to another. Trust is what you receive in return. Those that you trust are those that love and want the best for you and your life. Just because you love someone doesn't mean they will love you in return. \~ Thomas Hathaway Family is all we have at the end of the day. Be blessed and grateful to have family good or bad. Love is all we have, spread it around. \~ Leslie Barrow Family does not runs with the blood. It may sometimes be your friend, someone else or anyone who treat you as part of their lives, someone who scolded you to remind something, and someone who accept understand and treat you fairly even of who you are, what struggles your going, what social status you're in and what do you have in life! \~ Jasmine Guanzon ### Someday someone will walk into your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someday-someone-will-walk-into-your-life/ Last updated: 2025-03-30T00:30:14.000Z Believe me when I tell you it only happens once in a lifetime. If your fortunate to have that person walk into life, but you will know that. This is the person you been waiting for. I Thank God everyday for all the great years I had with my soulmate. \~ Tommy Cox It happened to me two years ago, I met the one at a pub on ANZAC day. If you're looking, I'd say hang in there, go out and mix with new people, smile and be brave, never settle. \~ Melanie Reid Everything works with time and patience, there is no need to rush. ### The most beautiful thing we can learn in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-beautiful-thing-we-can-learn-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-03-28T00:30:31.000Z Poisonous people are the most difficult to let go because sometimes they are family. \~ Honey Corbin Sometimes learning to let go of the things that hurts us and makes us feel bad on the inside can feel like we can start a new chapter and have the strength to move forward with our lives. \~ Sheina De Leon Giving yourself permission to let go of grudges is the greatest gift you can give to yourself! Letting go of the past is not always easy, grudges are define in our minds, poisonous people are people that can suck your world from under you if you let them.Let God take control of all of this and show you the true meaning of beauty with your life. \~ Barb Kinnison Look forward! Don't dwell things on the past. Past is already past. The damage has been done. When you have done it more positive things start coming into your life. Those people are blood sucking. They only think of themselves & are usually jealous of you because of their insecurities. \~ Louise Edwards ### People will always gravitate back towards you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-will-always-gravitate-back-towards-you/ Last updated: 2025-03-26T00:30:49.000Z Don't hold your breath waiting for someone to come back. Don't be bitter, move forward, it's hard, but if they are meant to be a part of your life, they will be. With time you will have become such an awesome person, if they do come back, you may find they just do not fit in your life. It's the people who are there now, tomorrow, and 10, 20 years from now who really matter, especially in the case of family. You have to let go. Life is so short, surround yourself with people who support your values, who let you be who you are. Whatever that may be! \~ Theresa Gregory It is so incredibly important to keep busy. To carry on with your life doing all the things that make you happy or that matter most and then when you are least expecting it that all important person just happens to be there as though they had never gone away. \~ Wendy Turner ### Some people aren't loyal to you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-arent-loyal-to-you/ Last updated: 2025-03-24T00:30:52.000Z Sometimes people you have known for years will often surprise you the most. When they have accomplished what they have always wanted with your help and support, suddenly you are not good enough for them. \~ Liv Hanson Helping out people who didn't deserve it to start off with but you rise above it, help them out and they abandon you when you're no longer needed. One of life's lessons. All you can do is be the best person you can possibly be. People come in and out of our lives for a reason and these are the lessons we learn, both good and bad. \~ Mani May Be loyal to yourself and your family because when push comes to shove, they will only be the ones standing in your corner. ### I'm not a saint, I have my limits URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/im-not-a-saint-i-have-my-limits/ Last updated: 2025-03-22T00:30:04.000Z We are humans, we are flesh. We hurt, we suffer, we bruise, we scar & we heal, but healing takes time. God knows that and he gives us the time that we need to heal and he waits, without condemning us, for being human. No matter how long it takes. \~ Betsy Vazquez ### One of life's greatest pleasures URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-lifes-greatest-pleasures/ Last updated: 2025-03-20T00:30:22.000Z Home Sweet Home! There's no Comfort Like It As Home is Where the Heart Is. Coming home to a loving family to relax peacefully is the best of life's greatest pleasures. God's gift! Nothing beats a relaxing time at home with your loved ones. ### People who see beautiful things URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-see-beautiful-things/ Last updated: 2025-03-18T00:30:11.000Z You have to use not only your eyes but also your heart and mind to see. There is beauty every where if one takes the time. I love to look at clouds when the sky is blue. I like the shapes of the cloud. \~ Janet Samansu My favorite place to find beauty is on a very mean persons heart when I'm able to make them smile. It just makes my day. \~ Maybelle Doh Passion for travel and tourism certainly helps a lot in enjoying beautiful places even in the place or nearby regions where you live. There are plenty of beautiful places to enjoy sunrise and sunsets all around us. We just have to follow the principle extra mile to see more beauty around us. \~ Arun Sharma ### Don't trust anyone too fast URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-trust-anyone-too-fast/ Last updated: 2025-03-16T00:30:04.000Z A relationship that starts too fast, will end even faster. Don't rush things, whatever is meant to be, will be. The main thing is don't be too much available for someone. Otherwise you loss your importance. Be present, not past, not future, but now! Moderation in all things is far better than over indulge in one thing. Let things unfold in their natural, what will be will be. Don't talk too much this will end every thing too fast. Don't do anything that will have far reaching consequences on the future progress of your life too soon. Don't waste your time on people who don't want to be with you. Love grows with time spent with the person. Love grows at a pace of how we handle all life issues with hope in front and God will be given a place. \~ Dorothy Rayner ### Things will change for the better URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/things-will-change-for-the-better/ Last updated: 2025-03-14T00:30:44.000Z You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because He trusts in you. Do not lose hope. Tomorrow may surprise you. Infinite patience brings immediate results.The results are the peace you'll have inside you! You got to be open to be able to receive good things when they come your way. Some don't know what a good thing is if it falls in their lap. \~ Elizabeth Esely ### Standing with people who hurt you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/standing-with-people-who-hurt-you/ Last updated: 2025-03-12T00:30:40.000Z Better to be alone than being with someone who makes you feel alone. One can feel alone in a crowded room if you're not loved by the right people. If you don't walk away from those who hurt you and you stay and deal with it, don't lose yourself in the process. \~ Roberta Thompson When you stand with someone who hurts you, your still alone in the worst way possible. Being alone takes time to adjust to, but when someone repeatedly hurts and betrays you, then being alone and on your own eventually gives you peace and a chance to be happy again. Loneliness makes you to find the characteristics of everyone. Our Almighty God is standing before you. Be brave and he will find the way. Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it. ### If you don't fit in with someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-dont-fit-in-with-someone/ Last updated: 2025-03-10T00:30:21.000Z I'm fine with not fitting in. I don't go along to get along. I don't do fake. I stay in my own lane. Works for me! \~ Gloria Easley Fitting in is adapting. Adaptation requires manipulation. Not fitting in is natural. Being yourself. I like it. \~ Hari Padhi People use to make me feel unimportant and now I understand that I don't meet there standards of drinking alcohol or drug lifestyle and I realized I was doing the right thing so I learned to walk away with a smile on my face and I realized how important my life was to me and that all the really matter to me. \~ Bertha Pena ### No Road is Long With Good Company URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-road-is-long-with-good-company/ Last updated: 2025-03-08T00:30:06.000Z Life is short. Always do the right thing toward a right person and the good timing. **You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you...** **You have to travel that long road to get to the end...** **However there is no reason why you have to travel that road alone...** **All of us are on that same road together!..** **Reach out and join hands and hearts with each other!!!..** **Don't make the journey a lonely one! \~ Michael Kelly Sr** Our life is borrow. We don't know when or where we stop breathing. I wish many times to walk not alone, now I found my husband and I wish again that I walked with him into a long journey of life. \~ Jimlou Walton No human is 100% imperfect in this world. Everyone has to learn to love the good in each and everyone and you will never feel alone. \~ Ramapriya Krishnamurthy ### Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/goodbyes-are-only-for-those-who-love-with-their-eyes/ Last updated: 2025-03-06T00:30:30.000Z No one can gather a courage to say goodbye to a person they truly love. If the love break your heath and soul, it is the time to let it go. Even if you loved them from your heart, if they broke it, maybe once, maybe many times, so then we lose our respect for them as they have for us. We may still care, but we will never trust them with our heart again. \~ Denise Kolar It depends on the situation. When one person has emotionally left the relationship and given their heart to another you will say goodbye. \~ Brenda Wells I truly love someone and have for almost 30 years. When the love is no longer reciprocated that's when you need to love yourself more and move on. Life is too short! \~ Kelly Collins True love stays with you always. You can be rude to that person, you can be separated from him, there may be distance, but your love remains. It's a strong feeling, can't get away that easily. \~ Priti Singh ### Not everyone who smiles at you is your friend URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/not-everyone-who-smiles-at-you-is-your-friend/ Last updated: 2025-03-04T00:30:57.000Z Some people thrive on being fake! Not everyone who frowns at you is your enemy. Your best friend can turn into your worst enemy. The lion can smile too, but behind the smile he hides a horrible surprise! ### Someone who understand how rare your love is URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-who-understand-how-rare-your-love-is/ Last updated: 2025-03-02T00:30:23.000Z Real love is so rare but when you do find it hold on and never let go. Some day this will happen. I can't imagine going through the rest of life without ever experiencing this. \~ Kathleen Penner No matter how rare my love is, if my man isn't paying attention, he won't notice it, but I can still consider me lucky, he has his own way of showing his love and that he loves the way I love him. \~ Arlene Socorro We give them the chance, we put our heart and soul into connecting and getting through the barriers, differences, communicating on many levels, but if there's no receptivity, understanding, willingness and any effort whatsoever from their side, to me is a sure sign that is time to move on, sadly and painfully, in spite of great, true, deep, love, and to me that is true indication of missing links in one way or another and that the two persons are completely on different levels of understanding and they may never be able to build a relationship based on trust, understanding and true devotion. \~ Shohreh Esfan ### The broken souls always help others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-broken-souls-always-help-others/ Last updated: 2025-02-28T00:30:16.000Z Broken souls are stronger and can understand the pain. People who have everything are the most greedy. The ones who have little will always be willing to help someone. I have just moved into government housing where people have very little disposable income plus all kinds of illness and barriers. I have never found so many generous, kind souls in one place. I feel so lucky. \~ Kathleen McIlraith Broken souls know all too well the pain and therefore reach out to others in kindness and love. Everyone has been broken at one or many points in life. It is those people that had to pull their selves up alone and rise to a different level that know what broken people feel like. ### Who deserve to be with you during your best times? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/who-deserve-to-be-with-you-during-your-best-times/ Last updated: 2025-02-26T00:30:54.000Z Unfortunately, there are those who only need you by their side during their bad times. Once they no longer need you, you really aren't who they want in their lives. \~ Renee Parker The real test of friendship when you learn who real or fake and the person you knew the longest, it's sad but they turn into a stranger. If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve my best. ### If you love someone, never fill their heart with pain URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-love-someone-never-fill-their-heart-with-pain/ Last updated: 2025-02-24T00:30:08.000Z Men should realized that they are blessed to find a lady who will love, stood up and be with them through good days and difficult times, but ladies should also not to forget to appreciate, be thankful and loyal to men who don't just say I love you but works hard to show and prove it\~ Carmen Cita If you love her, dedicate each and every day to hearing her laughter and filling her heart with joy. ### Be someone's moon on a dark hopeless night URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/be-someones-moon-on-a-dark-hopeless-night/ Last updated: 2025-02-22T00:30:07.000Z It takes courage to understand and be there for someone on a hopeless night. **I was that moon to many people in their needy times & now, I wish someone could be my moon in my needy times. \~ Alexandra Leong** ### Once you have really hurt someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/once-you-have-really-hurt-someone/ Last updated: 2025-02-20T00:30:31.000Z We all have hurt people in our lives and we all need forgiveness at times, to be really free and happy you forgive, forget and move on and make better decisions for yourself. We do change and grow as we age most do anyway and to say someone can never be trusted again is sealing yourself and them into a unhealthy situation, if you cannot forgive and move toward a better relationship with them than set them and yourself free and walk away. \~ Rose Raintree You can forgive but you never forget. Forgetting is impossible because we have a memory. It's not like words a blackboard that can be rubbed out. What you can do is put it away, even then memories come back to haunt us when we least expect it. Down to us then how we deal with it. \~ Val Dorn The good people in your future are worth a clean slate from those who wounded you in your past. Take each person as they come and work towards forgiveness. I want to give the people in my future the best of me, not the rest of me. Your past doesn't have to dictate now or what's to come. I think it's hard to do the seeking but worth it in the end. Those who keep hurting haven't done that work within and why pass that on? Why be the problem when you can be part of a solution? \~ Jennifer Lee Time heals all wounds but there may be a scar there when it heals. Therefore it may never be completely gone but it will be better! If you let it go it should be gone, free your heart and mind or else your only making yourself miserable holding onto the negativity of the hurt and disappointment. Grow from it! ### Being nice to someone you dislike URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/being-nice-to-someone-you-dislike/ Last updated: 2025-02-18T00:30:27.000Z There are times when you are in situations where you have to be around someone you can't stand being around. The mature thing is to be generally polite. They shouldn't matter enough to even bother to talk about behind their back. \~ Maryann Rood My mom use to say even if you don't like that person smile at them because that will piss them off even more. In certain business situations you may have to be around someone you don't like, but you must be professional enough and mature enough to tolerate your dislike for them to accomplish a goal or a task or even just to work with them every day. \~ Donece Thomas Sometimes, it is all in the understanding that you can impossible like everyone. I have more then once worked with those that I just could not find anything to like about, still we did work well together. If you can be brave enough to admit you can not be in the liking of others all the time either and that visa versa you can not like everyone in the world, then I think there would be a lot less trouble with the bloody bullying to start with. Just accept that things are what they are, don't assume, don't judge, just let it happen and you might be surprised of what can come from your accepting, but kind spirit! \~ Gandrewah Mellisant If it's a family member, right in your house because she has nowhere else to go and it would be cruel to kick her out in the street homeless. You just have to try to be tolerant. When things become too stressful and unbearable, get out of the house for awhile, refresh yourself, enjoy yourself with friends. When you come home, hopefully things become better. I simply try to ignore & try to go on with my life. \~ Belen Hidalgo ### You may not have everything you want in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-may-not-have-everything-you-want-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-02-16T00:30:24.000Z I am grateful, blessed and very thankful. I don't need much in life. Just a little love, hugs and kisses. Nothing makes me happier than having a bed to sleep in, food to eat and a home to live in! \~ Crystal Wade As we exist in this awesome majestic magnificent luxurious world, it means that we have already have everything because we see and feel all these, also we must be grateful and thankful our parents for giving us birth to live these awesome moments. \~ Ani Zakevosyan ### People will notice the change in your attitude towards them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-will-notice-the-change-in-your-attitude-towards-them/ Last updated: 2025-02-14T00:30:17.000Z Sometimes the reason why you change your attitude is because of the way some people treat you. I did this just a couple days ago and it has made a difference already, some people cant see what they are doing, until you point it out. \~ Anna O'Connell People are blind to their own flaws but are the first to comment on yours. Stay true to yourself! Some people rip people down to build themselves up. They are pathetic, be you and be proud, flick them the bird and walk away from the drama! \~ Trianta Karalis Some people will always play the victim! Move on! ### Sometimes, it's not the song that makes you emotional URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-its-not-the-song-that-makes-you-emotional/ Last updated: 2025-02-12T00:30:20.000Z Sometimes a song hits your mood at that time and says what you are feeling. The family and friends I have loss and gone to heaven, I hear these songs and they come to my mind and heart as if they are talking to me and my heart. \~ Carla Simmons Sometimes the song evokes such strong memories of loved ones long gone and as the music flows so do the tears. Through the laughter and tears we will never forget them. \~ Janet Newell I find myself avoiding music. Crazy how a song can bring you back to that exact moment in time as if you were standing right there. It's not because the song makes me sad but that the feelings are so strong and then the song ends. \~ William Harbaugh It's a nature of life on earth, simply accept it as it is. Let it be there, don't worry much about it. ### I didn't lose you, you lost me URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/i-didnt-lose-you-you-lost-me/ Last updated: 2025-02-10T00:30:54.000Z I will search for you in others and if I found even a tiny resemblance, I won't even consider them. \~ Fatin Nabila Be with someone who won't stay mad at you, who can't stand not talking to you, and who's afraid of losing you I was in your hands and heart. What did you do? Betrayed and sold the precious with very cheap one. \~ Moro Morris I loved him with all my heart. Letting him go after being pushed away was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make and now he acts as though I never existed and that kills me. I never stopped loving you and I will always remember the good times we shared with each other, even if you forget me like a fading dream. I will always remember! \~ Princess Kellie Keep moving forward your surviving there will be another out there for you who loves as you do. Stop looking back and focus on your beautiful future you have lined up. No matter how dark things may seem, every cloud has a silver lining, things will get easier every step you take. ### Always look for someone who is honest URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-look-for-someone-who-is-honest/ Last updated: 2025-02-08T00:30:17.000Z Honesty is the best policy. I can handle the truth its the lies I can't deal with! \~ Ellen Abel Honesty is telling the truth about ones actions which could be positive or negative. A person could be honest about cheating as example. What we really want is someone with character, integrity. \~ Matthew Ashburn Honest & sincere friend is far reliable than ideal one! Truth may hurt now but a lie will make me question the past and my mind could change the past forever. Truth can hurt but lies kill like cancer. Try to live everyday like your kids are watching, they may be. \~ Michael Arthur ### People just want to have something to gossip about URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-just-want-to-have-something-to-gossip-about/ Last updated: 2025-02-06T00:30:59.000Z Sometimes, a person you think is a friend, is really an enemy. If not to gossip, then it's because they need something of you. As long you give what they want, they keep smiling to you. \~ Laurens Koehoorn Hold your cards close to your chest, always think before you speak and think twenty steps ahead from your position each step you take. \~ Rod Petrie Some people need to gossip about people because they have too much time on their hands and their own life is so very very uneventful. \~ Mike Gibson Know matter what people will gossip about you anyway, but the ones that have to talk about me they don't have nothing better to talk about. \~ Mark Nunez ### One of the greatest feelings in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-the-greatest-feelings-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2025-02-04T00:30:10.000Z People have been led to believe its better to keep our emotions bottled up inside us so we don't hurt or offend others all the while offending ourselves. The freer you are with your emotions the happier you will be and others. \~ Louie Messinger One of the things lacking in this world is compassion and honesty. Pride has ruined many relationships. In my circle of friends we tell each other often how important we are to each others lives. We are so blessed! \~ Ralph Richer ### No matter how educated, rich or cool you believe you are URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-educated-rich-or-cool-you-believe-you-are/ Last updated: 2025-02-02T00:30:31.000Z The way you treat the people around you determine your destiny in the next life. Choose wisely! Kindness never goes out of style, but makes the broken spirits to feel much better. Every acts of kindness counts. \~ Imelda Sevilleja Without honor and integrity anything done is just a zero sum game. We're all here to make the world a better place than when we entered it. \~ Leyton Collins ### If you don't let go of the wrong people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-dont-let-go-of-the-wrong-people/ Last updated: 2025-02-01T00:30:22.000Z Letting go of the wrong people helps and teaches us to appreciate the right and good people in our lives! Lessons and Blessings! Those who mistreat you, you must walk away otherwise you block your own future and peace and happiness. You meet who you meet for blessings or lessons. However, if you are in something that is toxic, it's difficult to move onto something healthy until you release the toxic and heal. \~ Christine Gavin ### If you have to keep wondering where you stand with someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-have-to-keep-wondering-where-you-stand-with-someone/ Last updated: 2025-01-30T00:30:34.000Z The first few steps are hard but soon you'll be running! I can't be walking on eggshells with someone in your life, all the time. Constantly wondering if they will be there for you. Impossible to trust, respect, love & be happy. \~ Danielle Morando Life is too short to bring around people who just pretend to be friends. It's hurt but at the end of the day it is what it is. If you love dearly someone, friend, boyfriend, relatives but they treat you miserably, ignore you, mistreat you well obviously you are way too good for them. \~ Veronica Kane ### Love is not finding someone to live with URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-not-finding-someone-to-live-with/ Last updated: 2025-01-28T00:30:45.000Z The only person whom you can't live without is yourself, so we have to fall in love with ourselves. There is a risk in trusting someone, but when you finally find that 'right' person, it makes all the past experiences and lessons learned very much worth the risk. Love yourself and then you can truly love another. You and the other person will experience a love that words can not describe. We are always dependent because we are such a species, yet we can choose solitude because relationships have become way too complicated and so often not possible because fear seems to be stronger than love, but that dogma "love yourself first" is the pragmatic mantra that looks upon solitude as somehow a necessary punishment for being not enough. Enough aware, consciousness, we are all enough & we all deserve somebody to love. ### You don't feel the weight of something you have been carrying URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-dont-feel-the-weight-of-something-you-have-been-carrying/ Last updated: 2025-01-26T00:30:10.000Z The release of that burden can be euphoric. You get to breath free again. ### Always love our parents URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-love-our-parents/ Last updated: 2025-01-24T00:30:09.000Z Enjoy every minute you have with them and appreciate everything they do for you. Time gets away from us and then they are gone and then we really remember what we are missing. If you were raised in a loving close family, chances are you are lucky enough to have that forever. I am glad to say I was lucky to have great parents who are now gone but not forgotten. \~ Kathy Reale It's a privilege to watch your parents age. My mother passed away at 59, she never saw old age. If you have your parents, honor them, and don't say they did this, they did that. No parent is perfect, and neither are you! Just find a way to honor them, open that door! \~ Joie Kobak Never take a single moment with them for granted. Parents may not always be good parents but they brought you into this world, therefore respect and love them because no one is perfect. God says " no one is perfect except Him ". ### Everything will come to you at the right time URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/everything-will-come-to-you-at-the-right-time/ Last updated: 2025-01-22T00:30:57.000Z Sometimes it comes and unexpectedly and unwillingly changes your life forever. Our creator is in charge of our lives. He is very much hands on and is always directing our steps. \~ Linda Griffith When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ### Sometimes you just need to disconnect from everyone else URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-just-need-to-disconnect-from-everyone-else/ Last updated: 2025-01-20T00:30:11.000Z **It is amazing to connect with yourself. I recommend solo vacays! So refreshing! \~ Juliana Deanović** **In the past two years my so called friends have stolen, lied and taken advantage of me. I keep to myself now and love it. I trust NO ONE! \~ Georgia Dennis** Being with the right friends is a great thing and being with ourselves is very important. **So many can not be alone with themselves.That's when you can breath, when the best ideas occur, when you can hear your spirit. \~ Joyce Carnovale** ### If you don't like how things are around you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-dont-like-how-things-are-around-you/ Last updated: 2025-01-18T00:30:18.000Z 5 years ago my family packed a suitcase for four, got on a plane and moved across the country to Florida, anything is possible. \~ Brianne Swisher Sometimes we have no choice but to move on. If you love someone so much that you set them free. I moved from Indiana to Texas with 200.00 in my wallet. I had a job in 3 days. Where there is a will there is a way. \~ Sally Morgan Everyone has a choice! If you do not like the present situation there is no point staying any longer and being unhappy. At the same time there are other things to consider before deciding. \~ Gopi Menon ### When something is hurting your heart and soul URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-something-is-hurting-your-heart-and-soul/ Last updated: 2025-01-16T00:30:48.000Z Do something constructive with your time, something positive. Keep yourself occupied with things that make you feel good about yourself, volunteer work, help someone out, read good books, build something, learn a language. Keep your mind busy with good things! \~ Brigitte Nicole Keep yourself occupied. Make yourself feel better. Every time you think about it , quickly change the mood, listen to songs you like do something sporty and mingle with friends. It kills time and slowly, day by day you will feel it is less bothering you. \~ Sylvia Habib You will know that you made the right decision when your heart is at peace. It needs time to cure a broken heart and learn to let go, to learn a lesson takes time and it hurts, to growing up hurts, but we should be happy of all those sadness because if we learn something so we will be wiser and better person. You have to let go so you can grow find your happiness. Initially I was intelligent so I decided to change world but now I'm wise so I'm changing myself. Change yourself, change your thinking, be grateful for everything you have and world changes as good for you. \~ Vivek Thakur ### Some talk to you in their free time URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-talk-to-you-in-their-free-time/ Last updated: 2025-01-14T00:30:25.000Z Don't make your friends or relationships a priority if all you are to them is an option. Be a true friend first and see who appreciates your friendship and does who spend all the time exploiting your kind friendship. \~ Jason Sky One has to be thankful that even if only during in his free time he can give to you, it has to be appreciated. With so many things and so many responsibilities in this life, giving even it's just a free time or extra time is a big big thing and must be valued because a free time can still be use for other matters that is also very important like family and oneself. Friendship cannot be weighted on this. Maybe if one have never really given time. That's another thing! Let's not judge our friends with this. \~ Lai Mendoza ### People who stay thousands of miles away from you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-stay-thousands-of-miles-away-from-you/ Last updated: 2025-01-12T00:30:34.000Z I wish people could understand how fleeting and precious life is I've been a nurse for years and I've watched life come into this world and watched death take people away, why are we so afraid to tell others how much they mean to us, why hesitate, so what if they don't feel the same way at least you won't have to regret not saying it while you had the chance. \~ Wanda Lamon Some people are better thousands of miles away from you than being right beside you! If only everyone would realize life is so short and you may not have that special person in your life much longer. Don't leave words unsaid, say it today. Don't wait until tomorrow and give that smile away, even to the stranger next to you in line. \~ Lorraine Blanchard ### If people care, they will show it URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-people-care-they-will-show-it/ Last updated: 2025-01-10T00:30:58.000Z Let's you know where you stand with someone real quick. Finding this out more and more everyday. When you are going through a rough time that is when you find out who your real family and friends are. \~ Teresa Dragon You still got to be careful. Sometimes they just call because they are bored or lonely or they come around just to try to use you for their own gain, know when to run. \~ Michele Riley People these days don't allow themselves the opportunity to really get to know who they are dating. They deserve to have someone that respects and honors them. This takes time. \~ Dolores Salcido ### Good things are coming down the road URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/good-things-are-coming-down-the-road/ Last updated: 2025-01-08T00:30:20.000Z Keeping walking down that road. It's a long journey. Good things will happen in time. Life is like that. Nothing in the past to go back for and you only reach the future if you keep on walking. Keep on and never give up until you get to your destination. Don't look back. You already know your past, no need to keep beating yourself up about things that hurt and held you back. \~ Teresa Rivera ### If you love someone tell them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-love-someone-tell-them/ Last updated: 2025-01-06T00:30:52.000Z If you love someone, you will want them to be happy even if it's not with you. No one better then her knows how much I do love her but I can't do anything else because she is happy with her new men. I would be very selfish if I try to ruin her relation with her new men. I have sacrifice a lot waiting over 5 years for her. I also need my life and make someone else happy and also myself be happy! \~ Joao DE Always say what you feel. You never know when it's your last breathe. Don't waste time. Even if you get the wrong answer, you at least made the attempt. Later on in life the person will think about their answer, and regret their attitude, and their answer. \~ Sharon French ### Don't let people pull you into their storms URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-let-people-pull-you-into-their-storms/ Last updated: 2025-01-04T00:30:39.000Z Don't let other people's opinion define you or bring you down. Keep the faith & always trust yourself. Don't let them influenced you. Encourage them to follow what you do. Some people live in their drama, creating storms and skirmishes all over their lives and yours. Get out of their way, don't get sucked in, and live in & share your peace. Be a beacon of blessings & tranquility. Don't let them pull you down to their low level because they will beat you with their experience. Be the cause, not of the storm, but of the change of what you want to see. Be in control, not the controlled. Be the captain of the ship. The victor not the victim. Let what you have get it's value from you, not the other way round. \~ Zandise Booi Always be yourself and do not let the attitudes of others change you. Be wise and in control. Keep in mind that your positive energy, charged with the power of love, can affect everybody and everything around you. ### The Best Therapy in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-best-therapy-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2025-01-02T00:30:12.000Z For better or worse, my wonderful friends who all had been with me through all my ups and downs. I'm blessed indeed. Believe in the magic! Have faith and hope will bring it to you! \~ Ed Chin Your friends are suppose to pick you up when you are down. ### When you put your heart in someone else's hands URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-put-your-heart-in-someone-elses-hands/ Last updated: 2024-12-30T00:30:37.000Z Much harder to do and accept when you put your heart in someone else's hands. But God has perfect timing, and knows what is meant for us. Just keep the faith, that's what we need to do. \~ Suzie Rehage The eyes of a sincere heart are often shaded by blinders of trust and faith in the other person. Our ego is fooling us by telling us, what or whom we want to have and our soul is telling us, what or whom we shall to be for. But the voice of the ego is so loud, that we don't hear the quiet voice of our soul. What hurts is the wanting ego. I learned to listen to the consulting voice of my soul. That's how I learned to let go, what is not meant for me. Not always easy and a long way, but finely it works. \~ Ingrid Bahtiyar ### Being someone's first love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/being-someones-first-love/ Last updated: 2024-12-28T00:30:18.000Z Being their first and last is the best. My hubby was my first in 7th grade and high school and now we are married and he's my last. \~ Sheryl Meador When I met my 86 yr old sweetie I found true love for the first time in my life. He told me that I was the love of his life. He says I give him a reason to live. \~ Dee Carey We found love at first sight. Soul mates till the end. I love my beautiful wife and best friend. \~ Mike Quimby The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. \~ Allan Ducker ### Someday you will find what you are looking for URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someday-you-will-find-what-you-are-looking-for/ Last updated: 2024-12-26T00:30:26.000Z Finding yourself is the greatest gift anyone could ever experience. I gave up looking. Whatever it is will have to find me. \~ Darlene Bateman Peace comes from inside yourself. When you find it whatever form it takes you. Never give up hope, wonderful things come to those who least expect it. ### When someone tells you they 'care' but their actions doesn't URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-tells-you-they-care-but-their-actions-doesnt/ Last updated: 2024-12-24T00:30:31.000Z It hurts when someone tells you they 'care' but their actions show me that they don't. Sometimes walking away has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own. When they needed you most your always there for them, but when you are the one who needed them no one cares. Sometimes some people who you've known the shortest amount of time show that they really do care more than those you've known the longest. People are all for themselves especially when it comes to money. There are those who give when they have nothing and those who give nothing when they have everything. \~ Ana Garcia We never admit that we need help ourselves. We are always too willing to help everyone else and we give so much of ourselves that we have nothing left for ourselves in our time of need. We are also always giving to those who are willing to just keep taking and instead of saying enough is enough we keep trying to love and care by continuously giving to the selfish, greedy, needy and insecure thinking this will fulfill us spiritually or fill our own emptiness but it won't. Admit your own needs, wants and desires first and always ask for help when you are in doubt, indecisive or insecure. Keep people in your life that share the same sentiment or moral or loyal grounding as you and stop giving to the emotion, spiritual, mental and physical vampires. Find those who are willing to give as much of their time to you as you are to them and don't waste your energy on someone that does not revitalize or re-energize you or appreciate your presence. Love yourself enough to let the 'life suckers' go as you are not a superhero, you are human with good intentions and a life purpose to pursue. \~ Mel Mac Some of the people you have loved & cared about for a big part of your life & send gifts because you want to show them how much you care don't even have the decency to text or call you & say thank you & tell you that they love & care about you. It just proves to you what kind of people they are. \~ Vicki Thorpe ### The most valuable places to be in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-most-valuable-places-to-be-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2024-12-22T00:30:17.000Z All the time do all those three acts for all whom you love eventually you will be the one who deserve to be in this valuable place. \~ Anna Moghadam The most valuable place is in your mother's heart and thoughts also. ### Sometimes you have to do what's best for your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-have-to-do-whats-best-for-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-12-20T00:30:02.000Z Rise up over the gossips, hold your head up and know what you are doing is right. People who gossip are not your friends, so your life is better without them. \~ Mary Skertchly Do something! Don't be afraid. God wants you to make the first move. Sometimes we worry too much about others and forget about ourselves. Sometimes in doing what feels right for you in your life, you are free to give even more to those whose presence in your life makes your life feel right. \~ Rosie Steggles ### Be Thankful for everybody in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/be-thankful-for-everybody-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-12-18T00:30:10.000Z I also like to thanks to all those people who hurt me, who push me down. Why? Because they are the reason why I need to stand up and prove them wrong. The best revenge for those who hate you is to love them instead and show them your worth. The bible says, " Love your enemy, do good who hates you". \~ Casper Rosario No one can appreciate the all consuming feeling of true happiness unless you experience some sorrow or sadness in your life. It makes you appreciate the smaller things in life. \~ Diane Williams ### Don't ever give up in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-ever-give-up-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-12-16T00:30:49.000Z If you give up you will never know if you will have success. So If you try you will lose nothing but if you have success you will be happy. \~ Julieta Ivanova A little bit of pain is worth a lifetime of glory. The beginning is the hardest so never give up because life will get better. Once you tried and beat it, the second time around you come across the same path you will tell yourself, " This is easy, I've done it before hell, I can do it again" Now your turn to beat that hardship and tell me next time, that is easy the second time around. \~ Amigo Sinaguinan ### Give it your best shot & then let it be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/give-it-your-best-shot-then-let-it-be/ Last updated: 2024-12-14T00:30:52.000Z I was in a relationship a few years ago and gave it my best shot, it wasn't meant to be, I moved on and found peace and happiness and eventually love. \~ Debbie Polley Let it go if it comes back it was meant to be. There are too many options out there to force anything. Sometimes we need to tweak our direction/goals instead, it's kind of like a guy asking someone to dance. If he gets refused, he can ask the next one or go to a new place. People often get locked into a mindset within narrow walls. Choices, choices! \~ Jessica Scott It doesn't mean you are not good enough or you were like the ex. When you just trust and love yourself and know yourself worth, people will view you in a different light. The right people will come around when it's time. Meanwhile go with the flow when it is meant to be it will find a way. \~ Sherry Parsons ### No reasons & Excuses in any relationship URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-reasons-excuses-in-any-relationship/ Last updated: 2024-12-12T00:30:48.000Z If you care enough, you won't wait. I myself know which people don't want me, they tell me. Put yourself out there. You have nothing to loose. If they don't want to be a part of your life, you've lost nothing. You never had them to begin with. I like to call it, Their Loss! \~ Karen Elliott If people love each other they will both make an effort and nothing will stop them being part of each others life or it's not love. Relationships are best when you become best friends and partners through life. The one who love you will never leave you, even if there are hundred reasons to give up. They will find one reason to hold on. ### Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/nothing-haunts-us-like-the-things-we-dont-say/ Last updated: 2024-12-10T00:30:54.000Z People who don't say what they feel and keep it all inside are candidates for future depression or anger. Say it like it is. Assertiveness also depending on the situation, some people don't understand or don't care how you feel. So just walk away from these type of people. It does not matter how you are related to these people. \~ Alby Menicatti It's important to get real with your feelings and if it's negative to spend a bit of time to "let go" and be sure to refocus on a positive thought that we can put into action. \~ Jessica Scott ### You think you have time URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-think-you-have-time/ Last updated: 2024-12-08T00:30:13.000Z This is a mistake we all make, I am guilty too. As I get older & wiser I thank God for blessing me with another day. I now realize there's nothing more important than spending time with my Daughter & Grandchildren. When my life is over I want them to remember the love we shared & the memories we made. I want their hearts to always know I loved them unconditionally. \~ Debora Davis Time is like a water, it won't come back, it just flows ahead. Time waits for no one. We do not know the hour, minute or second when he will return. There's no time to waste. Never know when your time is up. So, don't wait until tomorrow. It may never come. Every day is a gift, live every moment, enjoy every smile & embrace every emotion. Don't let it be to late to tell the one you love how much you love them. You never know when the last time will come to let him know. Forever will we love. \~ Raeme Jalowiec Thank God above you wake up in the morning, for your health, and being with loved ones one more day. For with all the madness in the World, life could be taken away from you at a moments notice. You better be doing something good for another in this life or you will have a lot to answer for if you don't. \~ Christine Rechlicz ### Respect people's feelings URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/respect-peoples-feelings/ Last updated: 2024-12-06T00:30:51.000Z If you respect the person who doesn't appreciate it, never mind, don't get upset because the person doesn't understand now. He/she would one day, perhaps. \~ Ludwig Pang Treat the people around you the way you want to be treated yourself. Respect is earned, not captured. To earn respect, you must be understood, humble, tolerant and respectful. If people don't respect your feelings, perhaps you have not earned it. You might be the problem. People don't respect what they do not understand. People do not entertain intolerant and disrespectful people. \~ Chukwuma Okubuiro ### When you feel like giving up in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-12-04T00:30:42.000Z It will pass, no fight just waiting and relaxing. God will take care of everything. We have to be strong from inside and should face all the problems which comes our ways by not running away from it. I should say to each and everyone that we should never give up in life face it with all the will power in you which God himself has given us. We should fight for our justice and never ever run away from the problems which you are facing day to day. We think the grass is greener on the other side but no our life is much better than theirs. This is a lesson to be taught to each and every person. We should always think positive and never ever should bring negative thoughts in you which at times will ruin your entire life. I feel we should leave this to the God to decide about our life he may help us to solve our problems and keep going till the end. \~ Anitha Nair ### Don't run after people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-run-after-people/ Last updated: 2024-12-02T00:30:23.000Z Never run after anyone. If they are meant to be in your life they will be there. Love should be given freely. It takes two people to have a relationship. If you truly love someone, you can let them go to make their own choices. It's hard, but you can't make someone love you. The more you push and hang on the further they run and resent you. Be brave and let go and just maybe they may return when their ready. That's true love! \~ Peta Carro ### Just Believe! Good things are on their way URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/just-believe-good-things-are-on-their-way/ Last updated: 2024-11-30T00:30:04.000Z Believe that you will be blessed and deserved to be happy because miracles happen everyday. Even if time is killing us we must hope that we will get in a way or another the things we want the most in our lives. ### If your intentions are good & heart is pure URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-your-intentions-are-good-heart-is-pure/ Last updated: 2024-11-28T00:30:01.000Z I am a beautiful person, inside and out. I work hard for a living, help all that I can and depend on myself. I am not a wealthy woman, but I have everything I need. At the end of the day, I am at peace with myself. I sleep very well at night and I thank God for all. Life is wonderful! \~ Charlenep Hicks It is called living with your decisions and being yourself. Always be true to who you are. \~ Darryl Mondavi When we are in alignment with our truth and our source, then we create good intentions all the way. It doesn't matter what other's say, as long as you are at peace with yourself. If they live in anger, that's their problem, not yours. \~ Maria Roxas Everything start from our intentions. We truly need to live our life in peace and intention create your personality as who you are in front of others. At the end in all religions, God is the only one who know your intention and what you are planing for. Intention is the key of life and being serious and respectable person would make you special. Your intention will be the reason by blessing with something wonderful can change your life. Be honest, be optimist, don't hurt & pray because God is the best listener. Let It Be & Life is Go On. \~ Mohammed Aherdane ### People who lift you up when you have fallen URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-lift-you-up-when-you-have-fallen/ Last updated: 2024-11-26T00:30:58.000Z Sometimes I love more my friends than my family. Family take you for granted. They don't noticed how hard you try your best. \~ Jessa Arabejo One true friend is better than 10 friends during happy times. Sometimes we think we don't know what to say to help, but just a simple smile or a kind gesture is all that is needed. \~ Jim Long ### Never put the key to your happiness in somebody else's pocket URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-put-the-key-to-your-happiness-in-somebody-elses-pocket/ Last updated: 2024-11-24T00:30:01.000Z We should be very careful when we put our keys of happiness in somebody else's pocket because all people are not the same as we think off them. They are all much more different from each other. Happiness starts with you first before you can make or be happy with anyone. People can hurt you only if you give them the power. Know who you are and don't allow anyone to make you feel less than you are. \~ Jane Lamb You are the only one that knows who and what makes you happy and if others don't like your choices. You can't live your life for everyone else and what they think is right for you. ### Holding on too long to the one who treats you like an option URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/holding-on-too-long-to-the-one-who-treats-you-like-an-option/ Last updated: 2024-11-22T00:30:48.000Z Respect yourself enough to not settle for less than you deserve which is to be valued and appreciated. Without that, you have nothing. If people use you as an option, remove yourself from the equation. I decided to let go because I do believe I deserve someone better and he is there somewhere. With God guidance and blessing I will meet him. \~ Mherz Guerzon The only one to hold on to and know that it's right is God. People will let you down, your wife, your husband, your family & your friends. It's up to you how long you let them let you down. \~ Stephanie Martin When someone releases a caged person they let the dove do what they need to do to find happiness. Even if it hurts the strength is knowing they will find happiness in being their own person and there own security in independence. It's an awesome thing to see one grow into a free person with options to find true happiness. \~ Robert Pendarvis ### Certain things will never go back to how they used to be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/certain-things-will-never-go-back-to-how-they-used-to-be/ Last updated: 2024-11-20T00:30:07.000Z Nothing will go back to how it used to be. Anyone who hasn't learned this yet hasn't been very observant. TRUST! Once that has been broken, it's not always possible to get it back, and even if you did, it's never the same. Doubt plays at the back of the mind, even if your head tries to ignore it. Our attachments keep our trapped in a mental and emotional prison. The only way to escape is to let it go. Be free in this moment and the next one. Yesterday is gone, today is a new day, it wont be exactly like yesterday, and tomorrow wont be like today, so every day that we wake up is a new adventure with heaps of choices available to us. Everyday we become a little wiser. Knowing and doing, well that's your choice. Have a beautiful day out there people. \~ Shirley Foden ### Fools take a knife & stab people in the back URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/fools-take-a-knife-stab-people-in-the-back/ Last updated: 2024-11-18T00:30:36.000Z Sometimes people give you no choice. Once you figure out you are being taken advantage of and stabbed you have to release yourself from their grasp and move on. \~ Barbara Butler Often we can forgive the stabber and just not elect to associate with them. Never forget where you've been. Never lose sight of where you're going and never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you. Foolish people can never confront. Instead they use the back door. ### There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/there-will-always-be-people-in-your-life-who-treat-you-wrong/ Last updated: 2024-11-16T00:30:52.000Z I prefer to avoid them like the plague and have faith that the karma train is heading in their direction. \~ Tami Watchurst Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve Peace. ### What you are looking for in life? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/what-you-are-looking-for-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-11-14T00:30:25.000Z Looking for something when you need it is like searching needle in a haystack, gave up looking and it will appear somewhere out of your drawer. \~ Jessyline Maquito Sometimes when it comes, you are not interested anymore. I am not looking for something because I have everything. \~ Nadz Dabreahsing ### Never pass up an opportunity to say I love you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-pass-up-an-opportunity-to-say-i-love-you/ Last updated: 2024-11-12T00:30:35.000Z End that conversation with I love you because it might be the last time you will ever have that chance. \~ Jim Polly I have taught my 2 year old granddaughter to sign I love you and she does to me all the time and I do it back. It is our special thing. \~ Denise Hecht Be sure to not hold back for the ones you love. Don't stop saying it when you get the cold shoulder. They probably needed to hear it the most. \~ Dan Hipsher ### Never force someone to make a space in their life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-force-someone-to-make-a-space-in-their-life/ Last updated: 2024-11-10T00:30:05.000Z If they can't make a space for you then you need to let them go. Don't blame yourself for loosing them, even though he likes a precious stone for you. Beside it's their fault and it's not my fault. Don't waste your time trying to build a relationship that the other person could care less about. ### How you earn respect from people? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-you-earn-respect-from-people/ Last updated: 2024-11-08T00:30:08.000Z The people in our lives are so apathetic, they would never admit they are wrong, these people are bullies, control freaks and don't have an ounce of compassion or understanding in their bodies. We are all human beings and that is how we learn and grow by making mistakes! \~ Sandra Davies Some people would rather die first, before they own up to anything, but they are the first to see wrong in everything and everybody. I know the exact person like this. Everybody around him is wrong, did something bad, trying to rip him off, using him, cannot do anything right! I ask him what is right about that person? He just can't find anything positive about anyone and yet he's talking about himself as I realize just now. I was blind the whole time I was with him. Thanks my angel for rescuing me. \~ Anecia Villacruz Accepting your mistake and make changes in your life is a good start to improve our own self. Do things kindly. Being rude to people doesn't do any good. Kind words is more effective than nasty insulting approach. People listen to you more and if they don't it's their loss not yours. Just give your best and that's it. \~ Lolit Pasicolan If you are wrong admit it and swallow your pride and people will respect you , but dont lie to yourself because you are only fooling yourself. \~ Phillip Searson Respect can't be demanded it must be earned! ### How to attract positive & happy things towards you? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-to-attract-positive-happy-things-towards-you/ Last updated: 2024-11-06T00:30:02.000Z Never give up trying. Sometimes it happens just when you are about to give up. First step, say you are trying successfully whether you are or not. Your thoughts and more importantly, your words contain power. The power needed to activate change. If you think and say that you are trying "unsuccessfully," then you will be unsuccessful. Change your thoughts, change your words, your life will follow. \~ David Kemp ### Don't be afraid to lose what wasn't meant to be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-be-afraid-to-lose-what-wasnt-meant-to-be/ Last updated: 2024-11-04T00:30:34.000Z ACCEPTANCE that you LOST IT already. Reflect, face what comes before you and be ready to accept AGAIN. Life is always a matter of COME and GO. Up and downs are the part of our life. It makes you strong person. Don't waste time holding on to someone who doesn't feel lucky to have you. At that point, it wouldn't be a loss; it would be a blessing because it wasn't meant to be. I have all the patience in the world for love and truth, but not for what's not meant to be. Saying goodbye is hard, but staying in something uncertain hurts so much more in the end. \~ Nadia Fleary The truth is you can't sustain in this world without being selfish because if we choose a straight path there will certainly be times that will hurt you. Since we know that misunderstandings and disappointments are two inevitable factors of life, so think long about everything you tend to get attached with so that you wont get disappointed much in future. \~ Radhika Nagraj Some people don't value you as much as you have valued them! When it's meant for you it will happen. You don't need to lose yourself in the situation. Acceptance, forgiveness and letting go is hard to handle but it will come to you at right time. Just believe in yourself that you will overcome everything. Just hold on and trust in time. \~ Ennoiram Salinas Some are scared of loosing someone, some are scared of falling badly for someone. Life is full of wants and desires and there is no escaping it. \~ Gurleen Sahney ### When someone remembers small details about you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-remembers-small-details-about-you/ Last updated: 2024-11-02T00:30:14.000Z I hate it when someone tells me they 'care' but their actions show me that they don't. \~ Unknown It's a beautiful feeling when someone makes you feel very special in this way. Expensive gifts can't give you that feeling. It's all about "love and care". \~ Shiphali Balfore ### Don't expect only happiness in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-expect-only-happiness-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-30T00:30:58.000Z We need the dark so we can enjoy the light. I do believe and understand that but it's hard to believe when you have something consistently occurring and with the new news the worst is now coming. \~ Linda Mcconnon Problems come to life with purpose and for us to realize something worth thinking. When the night comes, there will always be a daylight after it pass. Life is pain and suffering. The sooner you accept that the better off you will be. Much happiness can be found within our struggles in life. The rest are fairy words! ### It takes someone really special to stay in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/it-takes-someone-really-special-to-stay-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-28T00:30:12.000Z Jesus did that for me 34 years ago. He came into my life and He has stayed as he promised "I will never leave you nor forsake you". \~ Martha Namusisi If you love, you always show them. It's so important to make your significant other feel special and why would you not want to? \~ Leah Griffin I have been lucky with my choice of husband. He is still very special to me after nearly 50 years together. \~ Tricia Adcock **Sometimes some people can only take love and are not capable of giving it back. Sometimes some people can't move on from their past to appreciate someone new that comes into their lives. Sometimes someone does not want your love. Sometimes you want to be that special person that wants to prove your love for someone but that person just doesn't let you be a part of them, so you learn to walk away. \~ Nita Dasani** ### Don't be afraid of losing someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-be-afraid-of-losing-someone/ Last updated: 2024-10-26T00:30:50.000Z If someone doesn't celebrate your presence they can celebrate your absence. \~ Renee Jessup One day we build dreams with people we love. The next day, we wake up to realize that nothing is permanent in this world. Love comes and goes, people stay and leave. Life is a constant cycle of change, of finding and losing, of making and breaking, of holding on and letting go, of staying and moving on, of dying and living again. But that’s life, love it, live it, learn from it and most importantly, enjoy everything while it lasts. If someone really care, he will show it to you through actions and not just words. The ones who do everything for you; who understands you; who put a smile in your face; who is always there to love u even if u aren't lovable, well they are the ones u have to keep for life. Lucky is the one who have that kind of person in his life. So, let us do our best to be that kind of person to someone. Let us be a friend! True friends are hard to find but once u find them do not lose them. Keep them, treasure them. \~ Germie Florendo Your soulmate is not someone who comes into your life peacefully. It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, someone that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone has idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second. Do not be afraid of nothing, stay centered in your true self, and there is enough love to share with all you meet, no-matter if they show it back or not. You are the better for it. \~ Jim Long One day we build dreams with people we love. The next day, we wake up to realize that nothing is permanent in this world. Love comes and goes, people stay and leave. Life is a constant cycle of change, of finding and losing, of making and breaking, of holding on and letting go, of staying and moving on, of dying and living again. But that’s life, love it, live it, learn from it and most importantly, enjoy everything while it lasts. \~ Omar Ali Never say I love you if you don't really care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't really there. Never hold my hand if your going to break my heart. Never say your going to if you don't plan to start. Never say hello if you really mean good bye. Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn't respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss! ### You need to forget what's gone in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-need-to-forget-whats-gone-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-24T00:30:47.000Z Put on a happy face. Fake it till you make it. Force a smile and you are half way there. Life comes in waves. Go back to the top. Life is Precious! We all need to get over it and move on with another chapter. It's not easy to say but we need to love our self and make our self happy. We have to learn and appreciate that everything has a time. A time to love. A time to let go and looking forward to better things. In order for you to move forward you have to let go of the past. ### Eventually soulmates meet in Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/eventually-soulmates-meet-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-22T00:30:41.000Z The reason why you haven't found him is he could be anywhere in the world and not always close by. He will be like you in so many ways, as with his likes, dislikes, interests, what you value most, places of interest and familiar hangouts like library, sports, etc. Most likely, he's also looking for you. About 95% he will be exactly like you; may not look like your twin though. What is your vision of what he looks like can help. One lady drew a picture of her soulmate only to find how much he looked like it. If you did such and displayed it surely someone would recognize it as being themselves. \~ Wilhelm Kerper A soul mate doesn't necessarily mean a partner people. I pray and keep faith that someday, someone will come along. Perhaps my soulmate is around the corner or years away, but when we do meet every moment will be cherished. \~ Craig Berardino I had met him. My life changed after that. Many areas where I needed to work on came on the surface. We mirrored each other. I have realized and learned from life. Soulmates are not meant to be in your life for lifetime. God send's them to work on your own issues. The connection is no doubt very deep and this person will be somewhere in the back of your head all your life because whatever you become today is after their entrance in your life. It was a kind of a miracle for me, felt the presence of God for the first time. Many spiritual things started happening in my life after this and started showing directions in it's own ways. Just want to tell everyone, life is strange and mysterious. Just have the belief in the universe, don't wait for anything and see the miracles happening in your lives. \~ Nikita Munde ### We usually change for two reasons URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-usually-change-for-two-reasons/ Last updated: 2024-10-20T00:30:59.000Z Everything in your life teaches you a lesson and gives you an experience. That experience leads you to better and makes you great. Pain causes change. Nothing stays the same. Nothing is permanent except the change. Just change for the better. We learn so much from life difficulties and crisis. Learning helps us to make a strong and better person than we were used to be. When you move on you become a better person and learn from their mistakes! ### Sometimes, saying sorry everything is not enough URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-saying-sorry-everything-is-not-enough/ Last updated: 2024-10-18T00:30:10.000Z I heard a lot of insincere "I'm Sorry" through my life. If you apologize, fix what's damaged and never repeat hurtful or damaging act, then it is sincere, but if you keep committing same act, it is just asking permission. \~ Cynthia Sudden Sorry" is just a word, change is necessary. Without a commitment to change behavior that made the apology necessary, the word sorry is just a meaningless word. "Sorry" or an apology is intended to reassure another that we recognize we did wrong, acknowledge that, and sincerely look at this moment as an opportunity to learn and grow not to get the heat off. \~ Tom Cozzens If you expect the world to be good because you are good, that's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you don't eat him. Sorry is not enough, sometimes you actually have to change. \~ Ted Kim Sorry is so easy to say for some people, especially when they don't attach words to explain what they are sorry for, which doesn't help or eliminate the hurt feelings that are attached to the possible offense, when there may be more than one or two offenses! Just a learned cop out - not an actual honest apology! For you need to define the offense before you can be forgiven! \~ Judith Higgins ### The older you get, the less you care about what people think of you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-older-you-get-the-less-you-care-about-what-people-think-of-you/ Last updated: 2024-10-16T00:30:16.000Z Live your life the way you wanted it to be. Set your own standard. Don't let other people influence you in doing something that is not who you are. We have choices and we'll exercise the option to choose without guilt. \~ Flor Sirios Life is too short to care about what people think, so be happy and enjoy your life while you're still in the world. \~ Carolynn Mwe I don't live the opinions of other, I will live my life the way I wanted it to be. Don't let anyone control your lifestyle that is not who you are but live your life to the fullest that make you happy. \~Christy Pham ### When someone truly cares about you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-truly-cares-about-you/ Last updated: 2024-10-14T00:30:24.000Z If they don't, they never really cared at all. Time is one of the most essential element in a relationship. If you really love that person, then find time. You need to think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay. \~ Jazmin Rod ### Stop thinking too much URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-thinking-too-much/ Last updated: 2024-10-12T00:30:32.000Z Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, But you can't make a rainbow, without a little rain. More expectation always hurt. So, if we want to spend happy life then we have to expect less and work more harder. ### Only three things matter in the end URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/only-three-things-matter-in-the-end/ Last updated: 2024-10-10T00:30:39.000Z If love is real, it will find a way no matter what. Three things matter: how much crack you take, how much money you make and how much you act fake. Sometimes you fight for something you feel is right, but it's not meant for you. It has it's purpose and then something else could be your destiny. I was fighting for something last year but realized as soon as I let go something better came along, something perfect. You see the plan when you go with the flow. \~ Mary Regina ### The person you thought would never hurt you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-person-you-thought-would-never-hurt-you/ Last updated: 2024-10-08T00:30:39.000Z Everybody will disappoint someone someday or another. That's life and people make mistakes. So it's all about how you deal with those situations and feelings and that will be a lesson in life, one if many because life is a journey in making your life the best you can make of it and be loving and kind to the people around you. Just give and don't be afraid getting hurt because giving will give you gifts of love back and being afraid will only make walls where love and caring will not come to you. Just be loving to yourself and others, so other people will catch your love bug. Kiss from a dutch lady with for life and the goodness of people. \~ Greetje Smid Everyone makes mistakes and will disappoint but it's when they hurt and apologize and then do it again and again. It doesn't matter then how loving you are to them. They continue to repeat the behavior, then you need to love yourself a lot. \~ Ruth Moquin Trust no one with your heart. The only person you can trust is yourself. Never keep expectations from people. Expectations should be within oneself. Sometimes we really need to focus on the positive energy to bring peace in our souls. If we get hurt we are only letting the other person valued before us. They have hurt, next step should be forgive and let them go. Don't chase them. Just find inner peace by forgiveness. \~ Ainee Dhaliwal ### Don't believe those who tell you they love you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-believe-those-who-tell-you-they-love-you/ Last updated: 2024-10-06T00:30:48.000Z Earnest actions & good deeds speak louder than words, but there is a blessed flip side to this: the amazing + special person receiving love must be real+ true, & reciprocate their true emotions & feelings by being honest with themselves. We call this altruism. Being real + honest with each other & communicating every day is the blessed + true approach to a very healthy friendship & most important a very healthy relationship. Sharing is caring forever. With great powers come great responsibility. \~ Clifford Virador Still have to be careful. There's people that will act as they love you until they get what they want from you or have depleted you, then your no good to them anymore. \~ Harry Sommer ### Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-speak-from-a-place-of-hate-jealousy-anger-or-insecurity/ Last updated: 2024-10-04T00:30:09.000Z Few moments of silence during anger can save you from thousand moments of regret. This is probably one of life's hardest lessons to put into practice. I have said and done a lot of things in my life which I have regretted and I'm still regretting to this day, years later. Such an easy thing to do, yet when emotions run high and reason is replace by negative feelings. \~ Te-Kopa Kairau Check your words before you speak. A tongue is an unruly member that cannot be controlled. It will kill a reputation. \~ Danny Story A word is like a bullet, once released it cannot be taken back. ### Holding onto the pain binds us into forever sadness URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/holding-onto-the-pain-binds-us-into-forever-sadness/ Last updated: 2024-10-02T00:30:18.000Z Hearts need to forgive because in forgiving we release our future happiness. Holding onto the pain binds us into forever sadness. Let it Go! The perpetrator did years ago. \~ Maggie Tella **When a bird is alive ......it eats ants When the bird is dead .......Ant eats the bird ...** **Time and circumstances can change at any time Don't devalue or hurt any one in life You may be powerful today .** **But remember time is more powerful than you** People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ### Don't worry about the people in your past URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-worry-about-the-people-in-your-past/ Last updated: 2024-09-30T00:30:36.000Z THOSE WHO ARE MEANT TO BE, WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO STAY IN YOUR LIFE. God's intervention. He may give us people and then remove them. Whether it's for a lesson, our protection or that we or they served their purpose in our lives. Sometimes it's a true blessing because it could have been terribly hurtful. \~ Kathy McDonald One of my philosophies in life is, "Never go backwards! Never take an ex partner back in your life! They were made an ex for a reason! By always moving forward! You soon get back on track and find your destiny/future. \~ Andrea Stubbington There is always something good behind whatever happens in life. Just because people aren't in your present life doesn't mean it wasn't important for you to cross paths. I love a lot of people I've had the good fortune to spend time with. They will always be happy memories in my life. \~ Georgia Whitney God always closes one door and opens another. What was in the past may have hurt but that doesn't mean the new door opened can't be wonderful. I used to look at closed doors too long and missed the opened one. I will never will do that again. \~ Kathy McDonald ### When your life will start to change? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-your-life-will-start-to-change/ Last updated: 2024-09-28T00:30:41.000Z You have to deliberately change your thoughts to be positive, if a negative thought enters your mind, say to yourself...STOP! I'm only going to think positive thoughts, I'm breathing, that's positive, I woke up this morning, I am Happy, I am Thankful for all the wonderful blessings I have been blessed with and continue to be blessed with. It may take time and it does coming from experience, and sometimes you may get set backs, but bottom line keep pumping those positive thoughts out and pushing those negative thoughts away, never give up! \~ Elizabeth Loper "Seek and you shall find" what you seek you will find. If you look for aches and pains, there will be a lot, but if you will count your blessings, there will surely be a lot. I do not know you but I can count a few of your blessings like 1- you have access to the internet therefor you were blessed with the intelligence, the gadget and the internet; 2 you were able to type- at least one or both hands are still functioning, 3- you are able to read the post therefor you are blessed with sight, or if you are blind you were educated to use technology. You can feel the pain meaning you are alive and your brain still talks to you. I can go on and one but only you can really count your blessings and that can give you lots and lots of positive thoughts. God loves you! \~ Aleta Soliman It is not about stopping thoughts, it is about thinking - to keep thinking - to realize there are positive and negative thoughts. When you have a negative thought to think further - that there are other ways, many other ways to think about a particular issue. One person can have a multitude of ways that they can think about one particular issue and another person can have another multitude of ways to think about that issue. Looking at it from the past, from the present, from the future, from anther persons point of view, from the environments point of view, etc. then comes the real power - it is your right to choose the one that you think will give the best story, the best outcome. The power of the mind is not in not allowing yourself to have negative thoughts. In fact it is good to have negative thoughts - but to not stop thinking at that thought - to keep on thinking and asking and using your imagination. Your mind is a powerful thing, when you fill it with power to imagine, to reason and remember, and that you can have many thoughts about even one event. To look at many facts and imagine many different stories and realize you have the power to choose, to change your life. \~ Linda Bromilow Life can be very hard and sometimes there are people who will make it harder. The trick is to know they haven't learnt yet, be positive within yourself no matter what or who is doing wrong or what is going wrong. Think to yourself - you are strong you know how to be a good person. Choose to be good to be kind and that person or thing that is causing your life to be difficult, then all you do is pull back a little but keep your head high and stay true to yourself. I have been through so much for so many many years, cancer abuse death financial oblivion everything you can think of, but I will not let them change who I am, who my soul is. Spread your wings and Soar Smile and find just one thing that is good one thing anywhere and see real life. The earth, the birds, the animals, the breeze, the sky! That is life! That is our blessing. YOU CAN DO IT! I believe in you, you have made the choice to ask how to think positive, so you are seeking and you now have help and love being sent from strangers to you. Never under estimate the power of kindness. \~ Sharon Hansen If you believe in God, thinking positive is easy and help yourself to make positive thoughts. Just be yourself! If you try to change your way of thinking, your life will eventually start to get better. Try to at least give it a try! ### Don't rush on anything URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-rush-on-anything/ Last updated: 2024-09-26T00:30:20.000Z When God determines the time is right for something to happen, then he will get you to where you are supposed to be. In his time, not ours. We are all in a rush to get to where we are going, lets just stop and relax and give it him to handle. \~ Bridget Mathes Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect! ### Never let an old flame burn you twice URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-let-an-old-flame-burn-you-twice/ Last updated: 2024-09-24T00:30:13.000Z Cry as hard as you want to, but make sure, when you stop crying, you'll never cry for the same reason again. \~ Rohini Neola When someone shows you who they are believe them, the first time. \~ Maya Angelou There's a reason that person is an ex. No going back to the same person who broke your heart. Chances are, that person will do it again. Their loss, not yours! \~ Kris Kekoa It should never be forgotten that 'forgiveness' is for your own sake, not theirs. They may never change, and that is up to them, but to forgive yourself for trusting and allowing yourself to be subjected to another's abuse is essential to allowing you to move on 'free' of them. If you cannot forgive yourself, you as good as chain yourself to them. Set yourself free, because you deserve to be. Not easy, granted, but absolutely essential. \~ Anne Warby I got burned twice as well, first time I was still a young girl, the second time was 20 years later and he crashed & burned me so much harder because I thought & believed him when he said & swore he wasn't the same person anymore but he was. Still the same liar and cheater, even 20 years later. I will never make this mistake again after this hard lesson. \~ Franc Clo ### Sometimes people need a kind heart that listens URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-people-need-a-kind-heart-that-listens/ Last updated: 2024-09-22T00:30:52.000Z So many times we say we're listening but we are so wrapped up in ourselves. \~ Mona Hill The combination of a brilliant mind with a kind heart that hears are the qualities of an authentically empathetic, compassionate human. We are all not perfect. We all need to be tolerant of those less fortunate. Until you walk a mile in their shoes don't judge. \~ Helen Landman When our essence is love, and we shift our nature from "wanting" to "giving". That's when every relationships becomes beautiful. \~ David Axlund ### People who don't even deserve to be an issue in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-dont-even-deserve-to-be-an-issue-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-09-20T00:30:18.000Z Love is not demanding, it does not seek to harm and it protects. Ignore those people saying bad things about you. Life is too short, enjoy it! Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it. Don't use your emotions on the wrong things, find what makes you happy and go after it. ### How beautiful it is to stay silent? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-beautiful-it-is-to-stay-silent/ Last updated: 2024-09-18T00:30:23.000Z Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level. Sometimes silence speaks all languages in all tones. Silence is better than saying hurtful words that can't ever be taken back. It is a great feeling to have the self control when the people around you expect your fireworks and they don't happen. \~Zenida Castillo Some people just enjoy getting others enraged. We need to remember we cannot control anyone other than ourselves. Silence is a very good language of expression. You don't say anything, but silence says everything. So don't get enraged.Trust Me! \~ Deepti Valecha I was married to a maniac who loved going into rages. Nothing made him happier than saying cruel and hurtful things totally below the belt to drag you into his cesspool of craziness. I learned over time, no matter how horrible the things were he said to me, to just remain silent. I learned masterful self control over my own self, and also never again gave him the pleasure of watching me explode to his level. Silence, is truly, golden! \~ Debbie Deal Silence is golden when someone is deliberately trying to push your buttons, particularly if have a little smile on your face. You walk away calm, their blood pressure is off the charts. \~ Carol Muller ### Only those who care about you can hear you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/only-those-who-care-about-you-can-hear-you/ Last updated: 2024-09-16T00:30:43.000Z Some people are so insensitive to the feelings of others. When you are silent they misinterpret your silence as indifference, arrogance, etc. Instead of giving themselves a little time to read deeper the person's silence. Silence is expressed in different context depending on the situation a person is in to. \~ Adelfa Serrano If no one listens to my silence. I choose not to listen to theirs. \~ Angie Carpenter If someone care about you and you're quiet, they will know something is wrong, but if the don't realize is because they don't truly care if you're sad, hurt or in need. \~ Marie Antoinette The ones who break all barriers face the biggest block. Supposed close ones don't even notice and get stuck with their ego. Claiming it to be 'better to be distanced'. \~ Renuka Swami ### Sometimes, all you need is a second chance URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-all-you-need-is-a-second-chance/ Last updated: 2024-09-14T00:30:25.000Z I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife & protect each other like siblings. We aren't perfect creatures so therefore we do deserve a second chance. Just remember! There may not ever be a second chance. Grab life like there is only today. If she gives you a second chance she's a real keeper now be a man and show her why she should keep you. \~ Veer Rajput It happens often because we are human beings who make mistakes and it's all natural and ok. We learn through the whole life. Understanding works better than judgement. \~ Liis Sillaste Sometimes it's very difficult to get the second chance in life, only few lucky people gets the second chance because life doesn't give 2nd chance to everyone. It's up to us how we utilize that second which is given by life. \~ Farah Siddique ### Don't worry! Everything's going to be alright URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-worry-everythings-going-to-be-alright/ Last updated: 2024-09-12T00:30:40.000Z Change what you can give. The rest to God & relax in Him knowing everything is going to be alright. \~ Linda Hester I feel your pain because you are close to me. I am your best friend and you are mine; everything will be good for you in the end. \~ Jaun Love ### You meet the best people & they are always far away URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-meet-the-best-people-they-are-always-far-away/ Last updated: 2024-09-10T00:30:53.000Z Sometimes distance makes the heart grow fonder though and you learn to value and appreciate those relationships. \~ Leah Gross Distance can make all the relationship stronger in friendship and in love too and if your love come weaker because of distance that means you didn't truly loved because distance shows you that you can't be without your lover and the second will be a year without seen his face. \~ Mahouta Belakaria Sometimes distance can make the heart grow fonder and you do value and appreciate those relationships. \~ Lori Berman Love can move mountains, cross the deepest ocean and can fly off higher than the sky. Distance makes the true relationship stronger. ### Someone who is proud to have you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-who-is-proud-to-have-you/ Last updated: 2024-09-07T18:36:37.000Z Be with someone who is proud to have you, scared to lose you, fight for you, appreciates you, respects you, care about you and loves you. You proud to have them - show them all the love your heart can give and I guarantee you will be blessed with love in return. \~ Pat Storm Be with someone who sees all your flaws, but still find you interesting and lovable. Someone who really stands for you, someone you can lean your back in time of need, in time of fear, loneliness, emptiness. Be with someone who can be your wind, beneath your wings. \~ Rosario Rex ### Who deserves the special place in your heart? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/who-deserves-the-special-place-in-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-09-06T00:30:01.000Z I have few friends like that and they all know who they are. There always there when you need a shoulder as well as a laugh or just to sit and have a coffee or chat. True friends is blessed thing to have. \~ Cathie Baker If you have just one person in your life like that, your ahead of the game. ### Never believe anyone who says they are too busy URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-believe-anyone-who-says-they-are-too-busy/ Last updated: 2024-09-04T00:30:51.000Z No one is truly busy 24/7\. We all make a life for ourselves and make room for the people that we want in it. Doctors, lawyers, CEO's and even the President has a personal life and takes time, even if it's not a big chunk, to make that call/reply to the people that are important in their life. We have busy schedules because we have responsibilities but there is such word called downtime, days off and breaks, even if it's 5 minutes out of your day to say/text/got your message. \~ Brigitte Nicole My sister recently called me and asked why I hadn't called for a while. I told her that her window of availability was too short, and that the last several times I'd called, I'd ended up listening to her talk to her husband/our mother/her young kids rather than being able to actually talk, and it has made me feel rather ignored that I keep getting put on hold listening to conversations she has with people she lives with. Mind you, I have kids of my own, so I understand perfectly well what it's like to need to tend to kids their age but, when her husband and my mother are both there and she's talking to them and not me and it happened several times in a row. You do get discouraged. I also once had a very close friend tell me, "Can't talk now, my show is starting," when I called him. It was a month later he realized I hadn't called him back, and he wanted to know why, telling me he'd missed me. Did he really expect me to call him again after being told his television show was more important? \~ Tracy Johnson Sometimes people really are too busy and they have to selectively reply to the few people in their lives that mean the most to them. When they say they are too busy, what it means is the other things that are keeping them busy are more of a priority than the people they are not taking time for. Sometimes you don't even want to know what that is, I will never forget the sting of a close family member telling me they couldn't come to my son's birthday party because their Gardner was coming. \~ Jennifer King I am a single mom with two jobs. Sometimes I have to adjust my priorities and most of the time that includes putting my children's needs ahead of my own. Just because I only text/call/talk to people occasionally does not mean that I don't care about them. My children are my priority right now, my true friends understand that and know that I do make time when I can. \~ Jamie Valles Maybe it represents some kind of insecurity if someone expects another one to say hello after certain time and if it is not done then blaming. I believe that if the base of a relationship, whether it is with your partner or a friend, is solid and good then there won't appear such issues because there is trust and understanding. e can express our needs in a more positive way, e.g I would feel good and not alone if you found some more time for me. Avoiding accusing and complaining because that pushes the other person away even more. No one wants to feel blamed. Expectation is one of our biggest enemies. \~ Liis Sillaste You got to be insensitive if you don't get it right away. It is so easy to find out if the person is not interested in talking to you. It is true that if they are interested in keeping the friendship, they will find a way to communicate. I tried my best to be a friend but if the other person keep pushing you away, just walk away and forget about that person. Just saying but not everybody is a jerk, there are people who are really busy. \~ Jaylo Menezes If one is too busy to connect with someone who has taken the time out of their busy schedule to reach out to them, where's the respect? Everyone can't be a priority but out of respect, returning a call, text, email,etc. with a time frame (24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, etc.) I feel is doable. Remember the same people who reached out to you may one day be the same person who you'll need to connect with. This opinion only applies to those who are interested in maintain relationships. \~ Cecelia Minton ### If something seems impossible or unimaginable URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-something-seems-impossible-or-unimaginable/ Last updated: 2024-09-02T00:30:30.000Z What's for you, will not go past you! We attract to us what we believe we are worthy of having and receiving and if someone believes it takes hard work, then that is what they chose to do to have it. Many people had a dream and kept their focus and expected it to show up, whether it was working hard or hardly working. The Law of Attraction brings back to us what we believe and accept we can create. When we allow our desire to manifest. ( not by force) example- We can focus with our school studies and stay present, and retain what we read and learn to get good grades, etc. Focusing is not hard work, it's being tuned in and paying attention to where we are in that moment with learning or observing, etc.. and the more we are present that too becomes a habitual way of being. \~ Sigh Willy Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. It always seems impossible until it's done. \~ Sanjay Raina ### Don't ruin a good today URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-ruin-a-good-today/ Last updated: 2024-08-30T00:30:53.000Z My mantra in life is, "ONLY CARRY IN HEART OR HAND WHAT YOU NEED TO." \~ Mike Wanderman Actually bad days should be taken positively and one should avoid doing things that made it so. Bad days are not for regretting, but they are for realizing what a good day we are in today. \~ Kiran Pegu Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life. One can't be perfect at everything. There will be bad days, they are part of life. You cannot figure out how to respond to everything. \~ Jabu Mazibuko Learn to let it go, but use it as a stepping stone to move forward. Yesterday is over and today is half gone. You just keep moving on each day. ### Having a soulmate is not always about love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/having-a-soulmate-is-not-always-about-love/ Last updated: 2024-08-28T00:30:52.000Z It doesn't have to be human, it can be your pet. Everything in life it depends on a persons definition or perception of the subject. I have met 5 in my life and only 2 of them were romantic partners. To me a soulmate has been a deeply good and understanding person in my life who I've felt like I've known forever but in this life only known a short time. They are people who have made such a profound impact on my heart that even if they've hurt me or left my life I feel connected to them on a spiritual level I cannot express. They are also the people I find easiest to forgive oddly enough because something sets them apart from family, friends and romantic partners. It's like I know they are connected to me beyond this life and I never feel unloved by them nor the need to place conditions on them nor do I need to even see them all the time to feel special. Soulmate is deep deep stuff to me, not just someone who physically and emotionally pledges to be there through thick & thin. It's those that may leave me physically, may have to help me achieve soul growth by hurting me but I just feel in another realm they have never left me, never will, always will love me and know what my heart and soul needs without me ever having to explain. \~ Tammy Mansfield You never know what anyone can have in store for you. The biggest ignorance is rejecting something you know nothing about. If someone is your friend or best friend, they wouldn't stop being that if you two tried to be together. If your friendship got ruined they were never your best friend. \~ Warren Rademacher Like anything in this world you never know until you try. There are people that are put in your life for a reason, you may learn from them weather its good or bad its all in how you look at it just like if you see a glass is it half full or half empty. Take the time to find out and you may be surprised. \~ Robin Hicks ### The Things you are waiting & hoping for URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-things-you-are-waiting-hoping-for/ Last updated: 2024-08-26T00:30:53.000Z Never give up! There is a time for everything. I'm positive, have faith and believe the goodness is very close by. \~ Josephine Caponegro I've had several times where me and my husband has needed money and all the sudden money comes in the mail. I know it's God helping us. \~ Tina Schmidt Things always happen at the perfect time even when we don't think so. God always has a plan better than we have for ourselves. \~ Renee Forsythe ### Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-have-to-get-knocked-down-lower-than-you-have-ever-been/ Last updated: 2024-08-24T00:30:45.000Z Get up start all over again, don't let anything keep you down. When you see the final result, it makes the struggle all worthwhile in the end, then reaching that point serves as a reminder to move even further past that point to keep moving forward. This is at least what I have learned and witnessed so far. \~ Emma Blunt I have gotten much taller since I been knocked down so many times, but my faith keeps me in check to continue on no matter what. Life is full with obstacles, but all depends on how you handle it. Never lose hope or faith. You are much stronger than you think. \~ Nidia Harris Keep encouraging each other to turn negatives into positives and opportunities to grap them with both hands! If you get knocked down stand up and put your big boy britches on-dust off your knees and hold your head high-be proud of who you are. \~ Richard Elisa If we did not have challenges and feel totally destroyed by events in your life you will not soar as the eagle majestic free and in total control. When these events in life are your misfortune to encounter. Dignity faith and transformation to the person you were before the event will certainly meet the words of the quote and much much more. You learn to never make the same mistake again. \~ Caroline Rands ### I notice every single little detail, I just don't say anything URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/i-notice-every-single-little-detail-i-just-dont-say-anything/ Last updated: 2024-08-22T00:30:15.000Z **Just because I don't say anything doesn't mean that I don't notice. I'm just trying to keep the peace or don't want to bring myself to your level. \~ Josette Joseph** ### A Wrong Relationship URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-wrong-relationship/ Last updated: 2024-08-20T00:30:42.000Z It is sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along. \~ Jane Pinuto We grow with each relationship whether it be an intimate, familial or with friends, workmates or passing encounters. We attract what we are, so as we grow so do the quality of our relationships. \~ Colleen Mullins Don't ever settle for the wrong one or you will miss out on the right one. ### Never forget who was there for you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-forget-who-was-there-for-you/ Last updated: 2024-08-18T00:30:09.000Z Too many people do forget and when you need them, they turn their backs on you. \~ Shelley Finnen Those who stay with you when all left is your best friend. Never let these people go out of your life. They are your anchors who won't let you drown while dealing with various life situations & issues. \~ Leonie Spence ### Learn to say NO without feeling guilty URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/learn-to-say-no-without-feeling-guilty/ Last updated: 2024-08-16T00:30:47.000Z People can say no there is no right or wrong way, but ask yourself this. If you ask them for help would they answer no and not feel bad about? \~ Maryjane Ontiveros ### Don't be bitter about exes or people you used to talk to URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-be-bitter-about-exes-or-people-you-used-to-talk-to/ Last updated: 2024-08-14T00:30:47.000Z Brush that dirt of your shoulders and carry on. Exes happens only because 2 persons can't overcome their egos to make peace and live and let live and move on. Lessons repeated, until lessons learned. I have found in my life that I'm only responsible for the effort, not the outcome. People get better, or they get bitter. I can't change the things I've done. Lord knows I would if I could, but I spent the better part of 30 yrs basically killing myself over the shame, guilt, anger and remorse. I now know I was forgiven a long time ago, by a loving & caring God. I am so grateful that was revealed before another part of me died. \~ Michael Ryan Make the best of yourself, improve your whole world and your demeanor, that way the next time they see you looking like a million dollars, they will be royally peed off at how much you are affected not by falling out with them. \~ Christine Walters ### Before you say something URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/before-you-say-something/ Last updated: 2024-08-12T00:30:42.000Z Some people don't care. They want to be cruel and hurt others because that is who they are. Mean, bitter & hateful. \~ Jo Lucarelli Once the words are out they can not be taken back. When emotions are out of control, step away from the situation. Be strong, but not rude; be kind but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant. I'll give you this, I'll stop and think about whether they deserve it, then I'll temper it with an ounce of compassion, then let karma work its magic. \~ Anne Helms If more people did this and more parents taught their children the golden rule "do unto others as you would have others do unto you" then we would have a lot less bulling and hate. \~ Lee Schaffrick It is unfortunate that some feel their negative words are more important spoken than the importance of someone's feelings. Empathy and tact do not dance well together on the tongues of the negative speaker. \~ Natalie McCray Even the speed of the car while in motion cannot control unexpectedly due to some circumstances. \~ Chicha Tubig Be the one to rise above and do things better. Set a good example. Be one that is worthy to follow. You can't control what "others" do or do not do. You are only in control of yourself, while having the opportunity to influence and redirect the behavior of others. \~ Jared Dellinger ### Don't expect everyone to understand your journey URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-expect-everyone-to-understand-your-journey/ Last updated: 2024-08-10T00:30:03.000Z It's easy for others to judge you because they don't experience what you've experienced. Those who understands you, though not actually experienced it, will meditate on what if they are at your shoes, and amazingly love you anyway, and just embrace or just stay with you till the pain you're feeling eased. \~ Janice Martinez Every parents, grandparents been there, done that but it's your own choice that make it the way you are. No one can expect anyone and do not also ask anyone to walk in your shoes. Life is taft but beautiful and we are the boss of our self. Never blame others for your choice, as no one can force yo to be where you are, in your shoes. \~ Rizal Hidajat No one ever really knew what you went through. Some chapters in life are best left unpublished. \~ Jessica Luna Don't judge people or underestimate. You never know their journey in life. ### If you want someone more than anything in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-want-someone-more-than-anything-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2024-08-08T00:30:12.000Z Life is for living. Always focus on the positive, then all will fall into place. Whatever, whoever or however it will turn out or be. Do not ever give up and believe in you. What's meant to be, it will be. Have faith, do not give up in every single way and you will be the winner. You, and only you. I want to be a nurse and I'm never giving up on it, because I want it more than anything. \~ Sidney Penner ### Never force anything in your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-force-anything-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-08-06T00:30:06.000Z Takes trust and patience, knowing what is yours will come in the right time. Love is not by force. God's will love one another. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. It's God's grace and God's bless. For lovers it's God's plan for them to meet each others not by force. \~ Lucrecia Cuartero Gravitate to those that gravitate towards you. You will always be happier this way. \~ Lisa Gordon Anything by force is no good. Sometimes we have to trust nature and destiny takes it's course. \~ Josie Mana ### Always tell someone about how you feel URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-tell-someone-about-how-you-feel/ Last updated: 2024-08-04T00:30:33.000Z I lost my wife and closest friend last year . Every day I would tell her I love her and miss her even when I was just going to work. I still tell her everyday and I always will. My anniversary is the 31st and I'm so scared. I never imagined not being with my wife. She was truly amazing, my greatest asset and my infinite love. I haven't slept in a while and I shouldn't be pouring my heart on here, but trust me, never miss a moment to hold, hug, whisper sweet nothings. Give her the best pillow, rub her neck whatever it takes. Don't miss those moments. \~ Jack Vining I lost my wife in 2008 to breast cancer. I did tell her every day how I felt and I wouldn't trade my time with her for anything in the world. She was the strongest, bravest, most courageous human being I've ever known. \~ Garry Joseph We never know what tomorrow will bring to us. We need to treasure every moment in life and show love to those we love while we can. ### Sometimes you can't explain what you see in a person URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-cant-explain-what-you-see-in-a-person/ Last updated: 2024-08-02T00:30:33.000Z If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk through my garden forever. Some people are so lovely that you cannot help but think of them. \~ Alfred Tennyson That person will never leave the spot that engraved deep in your heart forever despite that person has walked away. \~ Rae Chan It makes your heart know this is your soul mate. ### If something causes you more pain than happiness URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-something-causes-you-more-pain-than-happiness/ Last updated: 2024-07-30T00:30:45.000Z Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be. The hardest thing to do is letting go not because you want to but because you have to. Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go, it hurts for those who deeply in love. To let go it's not to deny but to accept but never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. Just let go of the things who hurt you. \~ Emily Agsalda Sometimes choices are hard but if you never make the choice you will never know how great your life could be. \~ Sarah Jones ### You are stronger because you had to be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-are-stronger-because-you-had-to-be/ Last updated: 2024-07-28T00:30:47.000Z Life is a journey of learning. We can never know everything, I'm still learning, the way I do things now is very different to how I would have done it two years ago. \~ John Aga We never stop learning as long as we still breathing. Live and learn, that is life. ### The Sweetest things in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-sweetest-things-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2024-07-26T00:30:13.000Z Once you are kissed on a forehead means you are love and respected. It means sincerity, love & respect. ### It's better to be alone than in bad company URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/its-better-to-be-alone-than-in-bad-company/ Last updated: 2024-07-24T00:30:50.000Z You can be alone and not lonely. It is a state of mind and choice. Sometimes it's good to be bad because then one realizes what is being good all about. \~ Himanshu Shekhar This is something that many should adhere to. Being lonely is bad enough without having to also suffer being with those who make us uncomfortable. \~ Rick London ### Don't mock a pain that you haven't endured URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-mock-a-pain-that-you-havent-endured/ Last updated: 2024-07-22T00:30:37.000Z I'm not sure people understand what empathy is anymore. Anyway I do not wish for anyone to suffer just because they minimize another person's hurts. That isn't any better than being them. \~ Patricia Williams What comes around goes around. Karma will come to those who tell lies and it will come in the form of truth. Sometimes you do not need more words and heard over again. Just think simple and focus the one direction you want to go and to do. \~ Sahara Groovey ### When you feel like you are falling apart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-feel-like-you-are-falling-apart/ Last updated: 2024-07-20T00:30:05.000Z Today I feel broken. There's no one but me to pick up the pieces. One day maybe but not today. \~ Clover Brodie The best part of us is that we do love each other's brokenness. You are a blessing and a true treasure. \~ Colleen Ken ### Your happiness doesn't start with your relationships URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/your-happiness-doesnt-start-with-your-relationships/ Last updated: 2024-07-18T00:30:00.000Z Nothing or no one can make us happy unless we are happy with ourselves first. If you are in a relationship and think the other person is going to always make you happy you are going to be disappointed. Abraham Lincoln said, " Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be." \~ Beverly Nelson ### Not everyone you lose is a loss URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/not-everyone-you-lose-is-a-loss/ Last updated: 2024-07-16T00:30:41.000Z You gain yourself. We never really loose our loved ones. They remain with us in love, in our hearts and memories. \~ Shannon Bradshaw You never miss anyone until they are gone. You can get more by having less. The empty space one person (or more) left in your life can be filled with a far more precious one and all that the time, love and energy spent on someone who wasn't worth it can be used to give to someone who is. \~ Emilie Luckhardt ### Don't allow another person or event to control you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-allow-another-person-or-event-to-control-you/ Last updated: 2024-07-14T00:30:26.000Z Relationship with God. Focus on God, not man. Put your heart into it. \~ Kim Edwards Don't worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication by thanksgiving let your requests be known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in God. \~ Ode Semilla Inner Peace comes from within not from someone else. When you find yourself and do not need anyone else to fulfill a void. ### Blood makes you related URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/blood-makes-you-related/ Last updated: 2024-07-12T00:30:50.000Z Sometimes, your real family may not be loyal to you. True friends can be as good as family for you. It doesn't matter whether if you doesn't have blood relations with your friends, but you are confidence enough that they will be always loyal to you and be there just like your family when you need them. \~ Tejas Patel ### When you get to see the true colors of the people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-get-to-see-the-true-colors-of-the-people/ Last updated: 2024-07-10T00:30:21.000Z That is when you find out they are not really your friends. Let's not mind them they will end up with somebody the same or worst. \~ Cristina Yap del Castillo You need to see it on a positive note and not negative. Some people enter your life, not to be a life long friend or even a close friend could just be the friend for the moment. They are there for you not to be sad it could be you learn just one thing from them and then they take you like a stepping stone to the next stage of your life. \~ Susan Harrington When all the colors are mixed it's turned into white. Don't expect anything from anyone. Somebody is there who always care about you. \~ Debashis Mondal You can even see the colors of your family members. Life without worst times is no life. It's like you are living a fake life. Without having worst times you can never know who really loves you. \~ Saveela Nasar ### Fake people are only nice when it's convenient for them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/fake-people-are-only-nice-when-its-convenient-for-them/ Last updated: 2024-07-08T00:30:40.000Z Don't ever believe promises, they are empty words. Actions are proof. Problem is the genuinely nice people usually get walked on. ### Falling in Love is easy URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/falling-in-love-is-easy/ Last updated: 2024-07-06T00:30:38.000Z Most do not realize that you have to continue to "work" on it as you did when it was new. A very wise person once wrote that love in a relationship isn't something that exists, it's something that you create continuously based on your own definition of love. If the persons in the relationship can agree on what kind of love they want to create and are willing to invest time and effort into achieving that, they have got a very good start for a wonderful life together. \~ Louise Forssell Unfortunately, only few really wants to work on relationship. When something goes wrong, many people prefer to live and looking for the easier way. \~ Olga Mihailicenko It is my desire to meet a man that is willing to work so that we can grow old together holding hands. \~ Cindy DeSantis ### You can't control how people will treat you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cant-control-how-people-will-treat-you/ Last updated: 2024-07-04T00:30:56.000Z There's a very big difference between reacting and responding. When you react, you act out of emotions, blurting out what ever comes across your mind without thinking. Loosing control. Responding on the other hand, you add logic and you're more in control of yourself and deal with the situation. It can save a lot of relationships. When we react we can say and do things that we regret later on. It's important to keep our emotions in check. Not to say we are not allowed to be angry, but always allow cool off time, then deal with the matter. \~ Brigitte Nicole Just keep quiet & ignore, they don't deserve my explanation anyway. Just let those people rot them alone. As long as I don't hurt anyone, I'm safe. ### People who keep ruining your happiness URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-keep-ruining-your-happiness/ Last updated: 2024-07-02T00:30:17.000Z If a person does not make you happy it is time to move on. ### You will get there when you are meant to get there URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-will-get-there-when-you-are-meant-to-get-there/ Last updated: 2024-06-30T00:30:46.000Z Patience and the Lord will reward you greatly. What is meant to be it will be. Don't look back, keep on walking straight ahead until you reach your destination and God has already make the way! If you have exhausted all ideas about a problem there isn't anything else but try to relax and be patient. Something will work out but you may not like the way it is done, but it's done! \~ Linda Dunham ### Everybody has gone through something that has changed them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/everybody-has-gone-through-something-that-has-changed-them/ Last updated: 2024-06-28T00:30:31.000Z I decided to be a totally different person and I will benefit from past lessons. \~ Hesham Abdo This summer I have spent almost two months in Duke Hospital. Had Open Heart Surgery, and Heart Failure plus trying to hang on to and keep kidney transplant happy. I want to be a better person because of what has happened to me. God has given me many chances. \~ Michaux Ottman That something could have been the most painful experience you could ever have but when you look back you are more aware and a more forgiving being. \~ Peggy Alessandro Never stop learning because life never stops teaching. Most of the time no one understands the change in you till they walk in your shoes. We never thought we could do certain things, but now we do it and we feel that this is the best way to be in the present situation and have adopted this. may be down the road we all might evolve and do certain weird or sensible things depending on the circumstances that we face, in the widest sense of the term, who have made us who we are today. \~ Uma Kishore ### Hold every person close to your heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/hold-every-person-close-to-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-06-26T00:30:24.000Z Sometimes people never realize the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Sometimes when one loves too much and when the other don't value and treasure it, it becomes like dust. You just have to blow it away and look for a new blossom. \~ Dexter Jaisarie If they don't want to show you how important you are it's time to let go even though it's sometimes the hardest thing to do. ### Keep going! Each step may get harder but don't stop URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/keep-going-each-step-may-get-harder-but-dont-stop/ Last updated: 2024-06-24T00:30:32.000Z We all have our moments but we must pick ourselves up because bigger and better things await us. Keeping the Faith. Don't ever give up because the best is yet to come. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The more difficult the journey and more joyful is the goal. ### Some people are like clouds URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-are-like-clouds/ Last updated: 2024-06-22T00:30:49.000Z I don't hate some people. I just feel better when they are not around. When some people appear, it is a beautiful day! This also holds good. Some people are like clouds with full of waters. When they appear, it's a beautiful season. ### Two things you will never have to chase in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/two-things-you-will-never-have-to-chase-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-06-20T00:30:27.000Z Chase Dreams Not People! You can stop yourself from things or people whom doesn't belong to you or meant to stay but you can't stop your destiny to make ways for things you desire to live with. \~ Dina Ismail True friends doesn't need to be chased. If they consider you as true friends they won't hide from you. ### Have Patience enough to wait for what you deserve URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/have-patience-enough-to-wait-for-what-you-deserve/ Last updated: 2024-06-18T00:30:24.000Z When you still care but nothing bigger than self respect. Didn't have to bring yourself down to become an option. That person is unfortunate and does not deserve your love and care. Realization will come but may be when you are gone. Just stay happy and make others happy by sharing your smile. \~ Archana Handa I am being as strong as I can be, letting go and moving on. I was just telling myself I deserve better. It hurts because you let that special someone come into your life and then you know - you deserve better, it's better knowing sooner then later. \~ Massy Zeledon ### Never be cruel with people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-be-cruel-with-people/ Last updated: 2024-06-16T00:30:03.000Z Cruelty is for losers. Some people blame bad things they did on their anger. Angry people usually grow up in an angry environment, in the family that talk to each other without screaming or yelling is the best family there is and then children knows that angry is not the right way to say or do to others. When you are upset it's not ok to be angry, resolve problems without anger is better and not escalating to cruelty. \~ Rasmi Ang Sometimes the level of anger may drive one's mind to become cruel. \~ Dick Hirayama ### If people weren't denying their mistakes URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-people-werent-denying-their-mistakes/ Last updated: 2024-06-14T00:30:22.000Z This is why so many people live life in a toxic cycle; they've spent little to no time addressing their issues. \~ Kassia Graham We all make mistakes, admit them, learn from them and move on stronger because of it. \~ Jane Bailey Denial has a way of destroying people who harbor it too long. The truth about issues will eventually come out and these people will have a hard time facing the reality of it. \~ Joanne Buczynski Part of denying mistakes come from the criticism received as a child. Rather than condemn our children from mistakes, we should ask them what they have learned? I give myself permission to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes without judgment, rule or condemnation of others. I give myself permission to accept guidance without control or criticisms. I give myself permission to seek and ask for help when I need it from others. No one can walk our journey for us. \~ Abby Batiste ### The grass isn't greener on the other side URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-grass-isnt-greener-on-the-other-side/ Last updated: 2024-06-12T00:30:23.000Z Take care of what you already have. Takes two, if one is doing all the watering, eventually the grass dies! You must love and nurture any relationship to make it grow. The grass is greener where you make it instead of looking over the fence take care of your own side and make it the greenest ever. \~ Margaret Murray ### Never choose someone who needs to think twice about choosing you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-choose-someone-who-needs-to-think-twice-about-choosing-you/ Last updated: 2026-08-05T08:23:35.000Z Be always 1st preference! Just leave them with their thoughts and move on. Better to be pursued and way more fun. People really need to remember this from the beginning to the end of their relationship. \~ Karen Poletti Never make someone a priority in your life, who only sees you as an option. ### Love is when they turn off their phone for you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-when-they-turn-off-their-phone-for-you/ Last updated: 2024-06-08T00:30:22.000Z It's not love if they're constantly checking their phone when they're with you. \~ Cheryle Gauthier Love is when they show their phone to you. It is so disrespectful to try and talk and they are looking at their phone or messing with it. \~ Cathy Steidinger ### A Clear rejection is always better URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-clear-rejection-is-always-better/ Last updated: 2024-06-06T00:30:29.000Z I hate people who play with your mind and emotions rather than just being straight up in the first place. \~ Miles Fearon Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Painful but life is too short to lead people on. Be true to yourself and others! Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. ### When Love is Real URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-love-is-real/ Last updated: 2024-06-04T00:30:35.000Z Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ### Sorry! I am not perfect URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sorry-i-am-not-perfect/ Last updated: 2024-06-02T00:30:44.000Z Never be apologetic for being the way you're meant to be inside and out, the shallow people are the ones that are at odds with themselves, not a reflection on you but themselves. We're not meant to be the same as another nor do we have to conform to a persons idea of perfection. \~ Kirsty Rowe Perfection is nothing but a fake outlook. No one is perfect in this world. Though we all are trying to just to make others happy. Loosing our own self. \~ Manan Bawa Unlike some people I guess one has to know oneself to be able to be themselves around others. It just seems to be that so many people are really confused for themselves so how could they possible be honest and real? \~ Michelle Hofmann Sometimes people think that going against the rules and the whole world is not being fake and not being fake is doing whatever you feel like regardless if it goes with or against people opinion. You don't have to do always the opposite in order to be original. \~ Alma Maldonado ### Making hundred friends is not a miracle URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/making-hundred-friends-is-not-a-miracle/ Last updated: 2024-05-30T00:30:20.000Z A best friend is one who dares to correct you when he feels that you are mistaken even when hundred of other friends hail you. Friendship should never be blind worship! \~ Maruthi Teluguntla Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget. Friends are forever. Acquaintances just what they are acquaintances. True friends are hard to find this day and age the world has changed immensely. I'm just old school. I remember when you gave your word and a hand shake there was no questions ask. \~ Patricia Mazzoni Another miracle is to become so strong that you can stand alone in your beliefs and still be comfortable. \~ Sissy Dunbar Having a few true friends who are always there for you is way more important then having a lot of friends who are only friends to your face and really stabbing you in the back when you least expect it. I'm lucky I have two of the best friends that I know, always have my back. I'm grateful to have them in my life. \~ Leslie Johnson ### Always respect those who tell the truth URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-respect-those-who-tell-the-truth/ Last updated: 2024-05-28T00:30:19.000Z The truth only hurts once. Lies will hurt a lifetime. You can always speak the truth respectfully, with decency. The responsibility is to tell the truth, have enough respect for the person to be honest, not because that's disrespectful. \~ Laurie Breiter Truth always comes out in the end! KARMA Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. Better to be hurt by the truth, than comforted with a lie. ### We don't need a perfect life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-dont-need-a-perfect-life/ Last updated: 2024-05-26T00:30:13.000Z Be happy and everything is perfect! Living life one day at a time is the road to a happy life. There is no perfection in this life. Happiness also, being a state of mind, comes & goes. Therefore, perpetual happiness too, must be for the life after this life. Serenity of being closer to your creator, being at peace with yourself, sense of achievement at routine tasks, job satisfaction, being in love, sharing your love with your children does brings temporary and momentary lightening to our existence on this planet. On personal level, I have practiced & lived the following ingrained three convictions, which give me contentment:- (1) I am not better than anybody, but nobody is better than me either. (2) Frankness or alignment of my words to my mind & heart, to practice what I say, feel and think. (3) Spreading generosity (not being materialistic) sharing knowledge and experiences. Therefore, above convictions practiced, combined with faith must lead you to daily prayers, which are the ultimate steps towards finding eventual and everlasting permanent happiness. \~ Zaffar Hussain It's yours for the taking. Happiness is a state of mind. A mind which you control. The only power unhappiness has, is the power you give it. Believe in yourself. Believe you are happy and you will be happy. You are happy. Things that make you unhappy do not exist. Unhappiness is not relevant to your life. Surround yourself with happiness. Be Happy! \~ Robert Boyle Happiness is up to you. It is a personal decision . If you decide to be happy, then you will be. Gratitude for what we have should supersede anger and frustration for what we do not have. \~ Jokee Romero ### Hardest times of your life often lead to the greatest moments URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/hardest-times-of-your-life-often-lead-to-the-greatest-moments/ Last updated: 2024-05-24T00:30:35.000Z Best thing that's ever happened to me is when I felt I was down for the count and was lifted my God's Angel he sent! \~ Jenette Lee My mother always says, " The best steel is tempered by flame." Meaning tough times make you strong. After a while you can weather the worst storms while other people collapse in a puddle. \~ Moira Potter About 1 1/2 ago, I thought my world had ended. I lost my mom and son within 4 days of each other and went to a very dark place, but thanks to God and the most fantastic friends you could ever ask for I can truly say that they helped me come back to the best place I have ever been and I can truly say that without their help I might have never gotten to were I am today, and even though the time I went though was devastating, I have gotten to a great place in my life and even though the loss was great, the love of all of them I know that I will continue to make it. \~ Carla Simmons ### Listen to old songs you used to love URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/listen-to-old-songs-you-used-to-love/ Last updated: 2024-05-22T00:30:51.000Z Music makes pictures and often tells stories. \~ Roberta Brofman I work as a nurse and the other day a patient had a little bedside radio turned on and the song playing was one from my teenage years that was one of my absolute favorites. Made me smile both inside and out. \~ Maggie Richardson Even when the memory is painful, it still brings a smile to my face because I would still do everything the same. No regrets. Love the 60's and 70's music and a lot of the 80's stuff too. \~ Elizabeth Porter Some old songs can bring you those bad memories as well. Think we all can relate, but old songs from the time I didn't even existed can bring nice memories too. \~ Elisa Evers ### When you be surrounded by the wrong people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-be-surrounded-by-the-wrong-people/ Last updated: 2024-05-20T00:30:51.000Z Being alone is 100% better than being with fake, two face people. Surround yourself with positive people who appreciate you and show it, try to constantly learn/grow as a person, help others, and avoid drama people who bring you down and keep you stuck. That's the best antidote for loneliness. To be involved with someone who doesn't meet your needs is the worst loneliness. \~ Anne McDougle Fake friends stay with you while you still have pennies for them but during your worst times, they leave you empty. \~ Elvira Navarro You can be surrounded by any number of people, good or bad and still go through the trauma of loneliness. Being alone is something we all need to be at times. Being lonely is something no one ever needs. \~ Rick London ### When you hold on to the Bad Feelings? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-hold-on-to-the-bad-feelings/ Last updated: 2024-05-18T00:30:31.000Z Don't allow anyone to make you feel bad ever. It is all about your reaction, stop reacting to whomever is throwing them in your face and they will lose their power. It is about how you handle it, not what they throw in your face. Turn your back and walk away. You don't react, they lose their power. As long as you give them the reaction they are looking for, they will continue to throw it in your face. \~ Denise Hecht No need to waste your most precious and pleasant today because of unimportant negative feelings. ### People who cherished our happiness & success URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/who-deserve-special-places-in-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-05-16T00:30:43.000Z Avoid those that are sad when you're happy and happy when you're sad. I always pay close attention to these type of people. They inspire me to be a better person. \~ Jerry Breitbach People who cherished our happiness & success "also" gives us the motivation to keep us going! \~ Ryan Villamor While some people envy your happiness and even tried to pull you down to their level, lift up and stay focus. Everything is made beautiful in his time. \~ Ako Si Gloe ### Don't let the sadness of your past ruin your happiness today URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-let-the-sadness-of-your-past-ruin-your-happiness-today/ Last updated: 2024-05-14T00:30:06.000Z The last day of your life. We need to cherish every breath of life we have in us. If the people in your present sound like your past move on, you don't need the negativity. \~ John Girardi Allow nobody to ruin your own happiness. Live your own life and enjoy every minute of it and above all learn from your own mistakes. Every new day gives you more knowledge than the day before. \~ Sandra Kruitbosch ### Don't judge me URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-judge-me/ Last updated: 2024-05-12T00:30:28.000Z Until someone has walked a mile in my shoes you don't have a right to judge. I've been through a lot in my life. I can handle things better now so we are who we are for what we have been through. \~ Elizabeth Jimenez Sometimes we have gone through some trauma that made us act differently or rather weirdly in the eyes of others, but they only understand if they know the reason behind it. \~ Josephine Angelynn Sometimes judging someone could mean fight with our own demons. It's hard for both sides. There are always reasons and reasons, but if there is love in the case, then we just need sometime to calm, to forgive and to love again. Judging is useless thing to do. \~ Ven Kosta Sometimes, the only thing we can give to a person is our ear to use to listen and a heart to be accepting of such person's predicament, non-judgmental in our conclusion and then a prayer to offer to uplift a person. That is what we must do. A person might just need to hear the "other side of the coin" of his issue. I have been there a few times and the most help I can remember is when a person is just there with her "ears" open. Re-direction, re-focus. Often times we are so focused on one point, nothing else matters until someone points out that there is indeed another side to an issue. Do they teach us this in school. Perhaps, I learned mine from my mom who always said, " Always give a helping hand. Do not point your fingers and accuse a person if you haven't heard the whole issue. Foremost, don't judge, there maybe mitigating factors." My Mom had always given someone a second chance. I think that is what we should do. Give second chances. This will make us happier people, a more peaceful relationships. \~ Leticia Carbonell ### Learn to be alone & like your own company URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/learn-to-be-alone-like-your-own-company/ Last updated: 2024-05-10T00:30:51.000Z It took me years to realize that but finally got it. It's ok to be alone. \~ Julie Lafrance Letting go of everything that holds me in panic and keeps me at a standstill for who really has time to feel lost and alone within a family when realistically yourself is more than enough to start your day with happiness. \~ Rebecca Fox You cannot truly be happy with someone else, unless you first love yourself. We must also spend time with ourselves. Spending sometimes alone, gives us the opportunity to do that and we get to know more about ourselves. \~ Debapriyo Saha I've been alone over 8 years now and I love it. I didn't at first though but with time I become my own best friend. \~ Jani Wilson This is actually true solitude and meditation to make you feel comfortable and relax from inside. \~ Mina Khairy I love walking quietly on the beach, listening to my music, in my own world watching sunrise. I just think they are specially for me. \~ Denise Hecht ### Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-people-try-to-expose-whats-wrong-with-you/ Last updated: 2024-05-08T00:30:59.000Z A good heart embraces goodness. People will either encourage you or pull you down and when someone is cruel it's only a reflection on them. It's about surrounding yourself with beautiful people that love the all of you. \~ Karen Hall Some people even don't know what's right for them, also can't handle the wrong doing. People puts you down to make themselves feel better because they are insecure in themselves. They make you look bad in front of others, bragging about your mistakes instead of pointing out what is good about you. \~ Shirley Lozon They can't handle what right about you because it's a reflection of what they are lacking almost as if to say. How can He/She be so positive when I can't, so they will point out your faults just to make themselves feel better as if to say. I told you He/She is not a great as people think they are. Stay away from those people who suck happiness out from you. \~ Daphne Johnson Don't worry about what people think. Your life and how you live it is between you and the Lord. Those are the only opinions that matter. Some people have become like bats, love to focus on the negativity hanging upside down & the dark appearing to elevate themselves above others. They need not be jealie (jealous) and embrace the light and take lessons on being great. \~ Elaine Baker ### When someone isn't treating you right URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-isnt-treating-you-right/ Last updated: 2024-05-06T00:30:29.000Z If you don't walk away, you'll hurt yourself beyond repair. Remember, you're a precious child of God, deserving to be treated kindly. \~ Zenobia Davis I have learned that when I am being taken for granted or used, I walk away because it is wearing on my well being and that's not healthy. It's called having respect for yourself. \~ Rosalie Thon Know your worth, it might be hard to do but show yourself that respect you know you deserve and do what needs to be done, that is the start of change and this applies to everyone in your life. \~ Jamie Busbee Just pick up your courage and walk away. Don't waste time. The longer one drags on, the amount of pain accumulates. \~ Dick Hirayama Love yourself first is most important than to love someone else. Otherwise, you humiliate your dignity, if he/she is not treating you rightly. \~ Kiran Sohaib Best thing I ever did was move away from toxic people who try to suck the life out of you. \~ Donna Lynn ### A loving kind person will open your heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-loving-kind-person-will-open-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-05-04T00:30:22.000Z Let your love continue flowing, who knows someday someone will filled your open heart with love. \~ La Bella Edna Continue to love because love and time are great healers and the hurt will be healed by continued love over time. \~ Krishnan Narayan I have most intelligent, too much beautiful, more loving and kind person. I'm proud of that kind of gift. It's only by God's grace sometimes I thought I'm the luckiest person on this whole world where no lie, only truth, lots of care and love. \~ Reetinder Kaur ### Cuddling literally kills depression URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/cuddling-literally-kills-depression/ Last updated: 2024-05-02T00:30:23.000Z It makes me anxious and feel like I can't breath. I never much of a cuddler, but when I cuddle my kids that's like being in heaven to me. One day they will be too big for me and not want to anymore, but as for 'grown up cuddling' I move around too much and it makes me breath weird like I'm being held under water. \~ Maria Del Percio One have to let's go to free one's soul, spirit and mind. You embrace in cuddling. Try each time to increase the minutes and try discussing your feeling doing each session. Just remember it's always best holding someone you love and have feeling for even if only as a friend. It can be and it is a cleansing and healing time. \~ Ric Amen El Look at our bodies, they were designed to cuddle, spoon & hug. Fits together like pieces of a puzzle. \~ Arlene Labbe Cuddling has gotten me through some very bad times. One of nature's best medicines. It's something we all need. \~ Karen Moses The sweetest way of showing their love is to cuddle the person whom they loved. ### Just one prayer can change everything around you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/just-one-prayer-can-change-everything-around-you/ Last updated: 2024-04-30T00:30:21.000Z I have a special prayer right now. God knows it inside out, upside down, and backwards. I pray it most of the time these days. \~ Sonia Buck I am a firm believer in prayer you just have to have faith and wait for the answer and it will come. \~ Carla Simmons Praying has helped me get out of certain situations and it also depends on how much faith you have. Otherwise, you might still be able to take action yourself but without the help. Praying inside my head has helped me several times. For me it's a good way to counter stress, anger, or depression without having to rely on unhealthy substances and it has gotten me out of bad situations. \~ Cynthia Suzumiya ### God knows who belongs in your life & who doesn't URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/god-knows-who-belongs-in-your-life-who-doesnt/ Last updated: 2024-04-28T00:30:14.000Z This is a hard lesson I had to learn after trying to forgive the one person that hurt me the most, my mother. I'm disabled and she invited me to her home she got drunk and pulled me out of my wheelchair and tried to beat me like she did when I was a child, but I had my God helping me have the strength to finally stand up for myself and defend myself and not allow her to harm me ever again. I know it says in the Bible children respect your parents but it also says for parents not to provoke your children. She was charged with assault to a disabled person and was put in jail and given 30 days. I do not regret self-defense whatsoever. \~ Tanja Merkle If you have to fight to keep someone in your life, then they're not meant to be there. \~ Randy Dorilag I'm just going to let God handle everything. I'm tired of fighting for people who clearly don't want me in their lives. I know God will bring the right people into my life. \~ Erika Sanchez A lot of people do take advantage of one's kindness. God does know who is true and who is not. Can't hide from God. \~ Sylvia Rubio People are brought into each others lives making it somehow better. Maybe with their joyful spirit or a needed lesson. Remember you choose who is invited to stay and your company is a privilege. \~ Mary Gore ### Love is not only an emotion URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-not-only-an-emotion/ Last updated: 2024-04-26T00:30:55.000Z Avoid playing with anyone's feelings. Heart is a bless. It's not a game. Say I love you and feel it with your everything. \~ Unknown Love is not a noun to give a name on what we feel but instead a verb to be acted upon. \~ Hazel Espartero Love in action does not just mean sex. It is making someone's favorite meal; starting someone's car on a cold morning; rubbing Vick's on someone's chest when they have a cold, and a million other loving acts. \~ Randy Strang Love is hard to find, but when you find it take it easy and show your love by the things you do for and around the person you love. For when you do this not only will your love grow but the love of the other person will grow for you. \~ Wayne Russell Unfortunately, too many people say the words but don't back them with actions. **Love is not when you try, love is when you make your partner happy and seeing her happy makes you happy. That's love for me. Her smile on her face puts a smile on mine. I love her. \~ Sony Blanco** Love is a feeling, an emotion, what comes from the heart, and doesn't necessarily involve physical implications. It can be shared with friends, family, animals, the elderly, a stranger in need. There are no strings attached. A lot can be learned from a dog's unconditional love. \~ Karen Elliott ### People who talk behind your back URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-talk-behind-your-back/ Last updated: 2024-04-24T00:30:23.000Z No one can achieve anything while they worry about other's opinion. People talk behind your back because they won't admit that they're scared of you. People who are different are the ones that people are usually scared of. \~ Mike Anderson The only time when you really don't need to worry about people talking badly about you, whether it's behind your back or not, is when you don't behave badly. Behave with integrity and kindness and no one can say anything bad about you, unless they are lying and you also don't need to worry about what isn't true. \~ Mamabbn Kimani There is someone who likes calling 911 behind peoples back for no earthly reason, they are a hypocrite. \~ Charles James The reason is because they are jealous of you because you are better than them. ### Let go of the things that makes you sad URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/let-go-of-the-things-that-makes-you-sad/ Last updated: 2024-04-22T00:30:02.000Z The process of letting go can make us sad, but that sometimes it is a necessary part of life to let go, so we can move on. Sadness is as much a part of us as feeling happy is, yet we don't let go of what makes us happy. There is no cure to staying happy, except to accept that sadness exists alongside it, along with a whole host of other feelings. \~ Sue Shade ### You cannot be good enough for everybody URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cannot-be-good-enough-for-everybody/ Last updated: 2024-04-20T00:30:53.000Z Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart not someone who don't feel it. The one who deserves you will know that you are more than good enough. ### The feeling that you mattered is overwhelming URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-knows-every-dtail-about-you/ Last updated: 2024-04-18T00:30:23.000Z It's priceless to have someone care enough to pay attention to you and really want to know you. \~ Kimberly Hawkins Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. \~ Simone Weil The feeling that you mattered is overwhelming. ### Stop giving people power to control your worth & attitude URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-giving-people-power-to-control-your-worth-attitude/ Last updated: 2024-04-16T00:30:19.000Z Good lesson to learn. People that make you feel bad shouldn't have a place in your life anyway. \~ Michelle White Don't let people live "rent free" in your head. I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. \~ Martha Washington We should be thankful for everyday we have. Being happy is our choice. If we look at what we have instead of what we don't, we will be much happier. \~ David Collins You are the only best friend of you. Love yourself and be happy. Shun the people who make you unhappy and discourage you. They are not worth your company. \~ Surinder Sandhu Attitude is a foundation and support in everything you do. It's the key element in the process of controlling your destiny. For true happiness, look within yourself. It's difficult to be happy if you rely on outside resources. \~ Cristina Gella Everybody in the world is seeking happiness and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. We all have the choice, what we allow into our hearts. Someone's else's unhappiness does not need to be ours. Often those that lack joy will rob another. The key is surrounding yourself with beautiful people that love the all of you. \~ Stuart Karen ### Give but don't allow yourself to be used URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/give-but-dont-allow-yourself-to-be-used/ Last updated: 2024-04-14T00:30:24.000Z Unfortunately when you have a good heart you do, but hurt changes that and you become hard and shut people out so that can never happen again. \~ Lydia Schiffer Nothing worse then feeling unloved or hurt by someone you love. Be positive and just make sure to give your heart to the right person in the future. What I find is helping is to learn to strengthen and love myself first then I am in a stronger place if it happens again. \~ Unknown When we have a good heart and get hurt, life sends us the right people and situations to balance out what is safe to share. Our heart is not to give but to share. What is the use to give from our heart and be left with emptiness? \~ Denise Offermann ### When two Hearts are meant for each other URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-two-hearts-are-meant-for-each-other/ Last updated: 2024-04-12T00:30:48.000Z It depends on the people involved. If they are deeply in love and committed, they will protect their partnership with all their might. If one of the two is not truly in love, then this person is not committed (even if they say so) and will allow themselves to be attracted to another person and destroy that other relationship ( which in fact was a one sided relationship). For partnership to be successful the two involved must be on the same page at all times and communicate lovingly all the time. \~ Nelly Youakim True love will survive, thrive and stand the test of time. Wrapped and all tied up. We did have hurdles but we got over them. To say I love my hubby and our life is an understatement. I simply don't have the words to describe really how happy and contented I am. I haven't lost myself here but rather am now complete. We met online actually I was divorced and not very trusting to say the least but as time went by I learned to trust again it wasn't easy. Love really does exist it takes give and take and comprise and faith and trust. It will only work with the right person. If is a true honest love it can conquer so much. \~ Lyndsay Rehn ### In Life, we never lose friends URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/in-life-we-never-lose-friends/ Last updated: 2024-04-10T00:30:15.000Z Some friends are true friends and from some friends we just learn lessons. I start focusing my time, attention & loyalty on those who do the same for me. \~ Nicole Lange True friends are the ones who standby you, want/hope the best for you and wish you happiness without the feeling of envy. \~ Kathy Loke Lucrecia Altrecha Cuartero Dont miss the chances that life giving you to spend with people you love . Remember when it comes to life there are no rewinds. ### People don't always need advice URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-dont-always-need-advice/ Last updated: 2024-04-08T00:30:30.000Z Even if you listened, don't expect to be reciprocated. Likely more valuable than advice. It's difficult to give good advice because knowing all the questions is hardly ever possible. Comfort and caring works best. \~ Charlotte Wolters ### Think hard before you walk away URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/think-hard-before-you-walk-away/ Last updated: 2024-04-06T00:30:28.000Z While you were busy collecting stones, you may have lost your diamond. Sometimes we don't seem to realize that what we threw away was a diamond for a rock, until it's too late. \~ Daisy Puebla I have thrown away the ties pushed away the negativity and walked away from the drama. When myself and my kids are treated as an option it is up to me to remove us all from the equation never to disturb again. \~ Wendy Nugent ### Whatever is bringing you down URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/whatever-is-bringing-you-down/ Last updated: 2024-04-04T00:30:35.000Z Start looking or training for a job you love. Draw the line in the sand with your friends and family and stick to it. Get your bills paid and stay out of debt. Even if all that takes a decade or more. It will be time well spent. I have discovered the power of a positive life. No headaches, no hypertension & no sleepless nights. \~ Vicki Johnson ### The First to help you up URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-first-to-help-you-up/ Last updated: 2024-04-02T00:30:15.000Z We could all use a healthy dose of thinking clear and trying to choose right. Fall seven times, get up eight! I have used this a hundred times and it works wonder. \~ Christine Dupuis If you have a kind heart, then you don't want anyone else to experience the same pain that you felt. Unfortunately, it's those with kind hearts that get hurt most often. Some fall and have soften hearts. They learn to freely give with empathy. Some fall and get hardened hearts which is a lonely place for they never know how to give and receive. \~ Stuart Hall ### Sometimes we need someone to simply be there URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-we-need-someone-to-simply-be-there/ Last updated: 2024-03-30T04:30:54.000Z Animals do this the best! Sometimes animals are far better than human beings. Always remember to treat others as you want to be treated. Make sure those who are important to you know it. They might not be here tomorrow. How you treat others can either mold the person into a beautiful butterfly or into something not so beautiful like a roach, snake, spider, rat, etc. \~ Cathy Ammons My dog gives me so much love and keeps me company all day. He listens to all my troubles without finding fault. He cuddles up beside me when I am feeling low and keeps me going all day. \~ Leah Covis ### Sometimes, I'm not angry, I'm hurt URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-im-not-angry-im-hurt/ Last updated: 2024-03-28T00:30:33.000Z When you're hurt you feel it deep. Anger is just on the surface. You can get over anger, it's a lot harder to get over the hurt. \~ Margarita Rivera Sometimes even when you say that you are hurt and no one response back. The hurt is even deeper into the soul because that is what you want is to talk about the hurt. \~ Marie Spencer Anger is shallow but hurt is deep. Anger subsides in due course but some people take ages to come out of hurt, but one shouldn't let resentment to reside in one's heart for too long & should move on in life. \~ Rupam Soni That was a big confusion in my last relationship. Even though I told him many times, other people can't understand. I get angry when hurt. But who doesn't? Then I get sad & feel too many emotions & need to be left alone. What a confusing pattern I sometimes put out. Other people's emotions don't scare me. \~ Linda Cross ### Be Strong, but don't be Rude URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/be-strong-but-dont-be-rude/ Last updated: 2024-03-26T02:30:20.000Z It doesn't matter how good we are, if we don't practice good manners to others, it's not really worth it because we not fulfilling our meaning in life. \~ Ada Medina Some people who are so clueless they don't know they're being rude and telling them off rudely is the only thing they understand. Sometimes the only way to "get through" to such people is to be nasty, then burn the bridge behind you so they can't get back. \~ Carolyn Brunelle Many live on the negative of this statement. So many children can be bad. They only mimic there parents. A little kindness and care for another really is not that hard to do. \~ Stuart Karen ### Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-waste-your-words-on-people-who-deserve-your-silence/ Last updated: 2024-03-24T02:30:14.000Z If you got nothing good to say, say nothing at all. Say nothing, quietly walk away into the rest of your life. Works for me! \~ Jennifer Dawson I have been silent for more than seven years now to the people who deserved it. It will be another lifetime if even that before they hear my voice or I look their way again. \~ Ana Luisa ### Fake people can't pretend forever URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/fake-people-cant-pretend-forever/ Last updated: 2024-03-22T02:30:58.000Z Fake people can't pretend forever. They will show their true color gradually. I can read people actions but if you keep worrying how people are you will just stress out. So why worry just bless them, let god change them not us. \~ Gloria Guile ### You can never replace the memories you had with someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-can-never-replace-the-memories-you-had-with-someone/ Last updated: 2024-03-20T02:30:27.000Z Sometimes a few bad memories seem to erase all the wonderful memories you shared with someone. It depends on whether they are good memories or bad ones. I once loved and trusted very deeply as most still waters do. Love and an honest relationship has different meanings to some people than to others unfortunately. Lessons learned through hard memories sometimes dam up rivers of emotions from avenues of approach. Good memories are few but they are held in the abyss of broken hearts by those that love deeply with conviction and honor in making strong relationships work. Most are shallow streams that take love lightly and give vows unto God easily as in marriage. Memories good are strong and those that are bad are usually caused by shallow thinking. Love isn't lust it is deep which some make the mistake of confusing leaving bad memories for those that give their love deeply with the honor of keeping it. \~ Timothy Lavender You can replace different paths in your life but every path you leave behind gives you lots of experiences and memories for your future. ### Do good & good will come to you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/do-good-good-will-come-to-you/ Last updated: 2024-03-18T02:30:43.000Z When you do good do Something for those who can never repay you with zero expectation and absolutely no returns, you will know and experience that good really do come to you in small and large ways. It's Karma! Some might abuse you or some might not thank you properly, but it is not about having something in return. Doing good, promotes good to others or so that is what I believe in. There is a quote like, "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are." and people who usually say what you say are the people who are not seen for the deeds they have done, but its okay, as long as you know what you are doing and what you think for yourself. \~ Jr Alcuizar Barredo Don't search your happiness in others. It will make you feel alone, but search it in yourself, you will feel happy even if you are alone. ### No point in stressing over something you can't change URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-point-in-stressing-over-something-you-cant-change/ Last updated: 2024-03-16T02:30:29.000Z Stress is the total waste of time. It keep your busy to doing nothing. It steals your joy. You can't change the pass but you can learn from your mistakes for a better future. Nothing in this world is permanent. Move on! It's not worth your time and energy to dwell on it. Life is too short and if there is nothing you can do what's the point in worrying about it. ### Let go of the people who poison your spirit URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/let-go-of-the-people-who-poison-your-spirit/ Last updated: 2024-03-14T02:30:03.000Z Shine with all you have, but if someone tries to blow you out, take a fresh breathe elsewhere, and burn brighter. Everyone has issues, so I choose to show them more love because somewhere in their lives they did not receive it and may not know how to give it. They will never change with out being and learning love. \~ Ann Devlin So many people try to shut you down or pull you into their problems when they should be trying to change their situations. They would rather pull you back down to where they are than let you help them to get out of where they are most comfortable. \~ Sheri Moss The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in The FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life. You cannot change the people around you, but you can change the people you are around. \~ Brigitte Nicole I have found that there are people that I have to avoid - not hate or dislike. But remove myself from them as they have brought me down to depths of depression that I do not function as I should. However, I continue to pray for them so don't feel that I have left them out to dry. It is the necessary treatment to keep myself uplifted and able to be able to be objective and open to God's leading. But what works for one may not for another. Only God can show us what we need. \~ Jackie Berkey ### One of the worst things in Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-the-worst-things-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-03-12T02:30:39.000Z Loneliness is good but not the feeling of being alone. It's better to be alone than to be with someone who gave you pains and stress. \~ Jessyline Maquito It's better your with someone who values who you are and if that's not a possibility then your better off alone where you have only you to be strong for. \~ Katherine Turner Too many times you wake up one day and find yourself in this place. I know I did but just like me you can learn and move on. Sure it may mean starting over but your worth it. Now I can happily say I'm surrounded by people who make me feel loved and happy to be me. Thank you God for second chances. \~ Shelley Carter That's why I stopped talking to my so-called "best friend." She made me feel that way. \~ Sarah Sullivan ### If you could write a note to your younger self URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-could-write-a-note-to-your-younger-self/ Last updated: 2024-03-10T02:30:56.000Z Mom's right. Time heals. Be courageous. Run away. Be careful. Stay Strong! Always listen. Study hard. Trust God. Love yourself. Don't rush. God first. Forgive yourself. Trust intuition. You're worthy. Worry less. Never quit. Don't settle. You're beautiful. Feel free to share two words which you would love to say your younger self! ### Don't let anyone suck the happiness out of you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-let-anyone-suck-the-happiness-out-of-you/ Last updated: 2024-03-08T02:30:27.000Z Don't even explain or say goodbye, just pulled the plug. \~ Kim Gold I pulled a few plugs. People can be so shallow, insecure and nasty. Some love nothing more than to make your life miserable because they are so miserable in their own lives but, instead of correcting their own life, they try to destroy yours. These days when people show me who they are the first time, I believe them. Better to be alone than in bad company. \~ Diane Lopez I did, it hurts like hell and they come running after you, but just keep moving forward without them. If they are meant to come back, they will in a positive way. \~ Jenny Inman ### One of the hardest lessons in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-of-the-hardest-lessons-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-03-06T02:30:53.000Z Let go of the fight & know when it is time to let go, then let it be. Forgiving isn't easy, but if we can, it frees our spirit of all the crap we go through. Too Expensive to hold on to grudges. Be free! Forgive someone maybe forgiving you just around the corner. \~ Irene Donelan If you have to fight to keep someone you love in your life it might be time to let go. Love should just come easy if it's always a fight your or if it's sucking all the life out of you to make them happy their not trying to make you happy and you lose yourself in the fight. \~ Kelly Schneider Some people learn to let go and accept, while others choose to be a victim, or become seekers of sympathy, or even worse bitter. Life is about change good or bad but in the end the choice is always our own. I want to believe that most people choose to become stronger, better and learn lessons no matter how hard. \~ Terry Rogers ### Stop looking for a perfect life partner URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-looking-for-a-perfect-life-partner/ Last updated: 2024-03-04T02:30:43.000Z It will happen when you leas expect it. 16 years of not looking! It was worth the wait. Rather be single than with the wrong one. \~ Michael Payne I'm peaceful just being alone. Thanks for the lessons of bad relationship that I had been through. I am stronger now. \~ Liezl Ramos I left my partner over three years ago and as hard as it was in the beginning I have definitely become a much stronger, more confident, independent woman that has found happiness inside me without relying on someone else for happiness and it's an amazing feeling. \~ Maxine Pepper ### The Biggest mistake one can make in life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-biggest-mistake-one-can-make-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-03-02T02:30:45.000Z Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. \~ Oscar Wilde Giving so much value to someone and only inconsiderate and hurting back is the biggest mistake ever. Never compromise who you are in an attempt to impress someone else. It's not about a bad relationship either people. But this lesson you can not see until after a relationship has ended. I spent 7 years with an amazing person, and gave her all my love but I forgot to love my self, and when you don't love yourself, you become somebody that you are not. Now ask yourself, how can she love someone they never fell in love with in the first place? \~ Jesse Perez Relationships are not built on specialness but built on respect, kindness and caring that is mutual. Did that for 9 years. It took me a while to find me again, but finally I did. Life is so much better and sweeter being true to myself. \~ Donna Vass ### Overthinking kills happiness URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/overthinking-kills-happiness/ Last updated: 2024-02-29T02:30:43.000Z Lies kill trust, lack of trust, feels insecurities & due to insecurities over thinking arise in the mind, so don't lie in any relationships. Overthinking & worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but gets you nowhere. Lies will lock you up with truth the only key. The more people lie the deeper they get into a hole and harder it is to get out of the hole. Telling the truth is the only way, even if it reveals your wrong doing. It is better to swallow stupidity and selfish pride than to keep lying especially when others know you are lying. \~ Gabby McCoy ### Love is caring when you are angry URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-caring-when-you-are-angry/ Last updated: 2024-02-28T02:30:55.000Z Anger is temporary while love is life long. One should not stop caring until the last breath. \~ Smriti Mathur I remember being so mad at my husband I wanted to wring his neck. Literally, I was imagining his early demise at my hands while I stood in the kitchen packing his lunch for the next day and prepping the coffee pot for him because I didn't want him to go hungry. \~ Amelia Berry Just a word 'Sorry' can make this world a better place. Prevent so many heart aches, yet it is so difficult to say it. \~ Anthony Gomes ### When I see old people together URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-i-see-old-people-together/ Last updated: 2024-02-26T02:30:43.000Z It makes me happy seeing elderly still together after all the years knowing that no matter what you will always have someone on your side. \~ Donna Lobdell When they reach that age for a long relationship, there's true love because there is also respect. \~ Maricor Cruzat True love is an everlasting love. It doesn't have a time limit. This the time love plays vital role. Love always exist in every soul. We must merge into it to feel and love to be loved & lovable. ### Why do we close our eyes when we kiss? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/why-do-we-close-our-eyes-when-we-kiss/ Last updated: 2024-02-24T02:30:31.000Z If you don't understand this then you haven't found the right person yet. We see the essential better through the heart. In all some take advantage, when we are true and when we do things silently in our hearts. \~ Mohan Joseph ### If a person doesn't appreciate you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-a-person-doesnt-appreciate-you/ Last updated: 2024-02-22T02:30:52.000Z There's nothing wrong in choosing friends. You associate yourself with people who stick with you through thick or thin. You will find out who has time for you when you have to face life's challenges and those who have time for you are those who love you. Everyone has at least one person like this in your life. Only need one! \~ Marilyn Rittmeyer We all have flaws, but at the end of the day our love should be unconditional for the people we love. Unspoken prayer request for this person to find the strength to see her self worth and that she is important. \~ Rosa Taylor Just love others no matter what and there's no worrying about any of this. If they don't know how they will leave without you even needing to worry about what you or they 'deserve'. We all deserve love but we will never find it or be able to deliver it if we don't have it and recognize our roles in it. \~ David Townley First we must value ourselves, then learn what it feel like to be valued by others. Finally then, you are able to walk away from those who don't give you the supported feeling necessary to thrive. \~ Brenda Morris ### Sometimes you need to be alone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-need-to-be-alone/ Last updated: 2024-02-20T02:30:20.000Z Too bad! So many folks are so afraid of being alone. It can be quite therapeutic in ways. \~ Kathie Berger Being alone & being lonely are two totally different things. I would rather be alone, than be a we that is lonely. \~ Jill Custer I work around a lot of different people coming and going, so these solitude moments I get on the odd occasion are wonderful, and therapeutic and I crave them sometimes. \~ Sonia Schwarzl Occasional solitude is good for the soul. One should meditate and self-reflect during those periods. One will feel refreshed and at peace. \~ Jaime Garcia ### We only regret the chances we didn't take URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-only-regret-the-chances-we-didnt-take/ Last updated: 2024-02-18T02:30:36.000Z In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have and the decisions we waited too long to make. Don't waste a single moment. The words we didn't say, the love we didn't express, the hugs we missed to have at goodbyes. The situations we stayed still. \~ Marmoura Morris In the end we are left with two word "i wish" and it's the regret which is going to be there for the rest of our lives. Everything will comes to you at the perfect time. If only we can turn back the hand of time most of us would do so. If you don't like your life now don't stay at it for too long because the chances of finding the life you want is getting smaller as years pass by. \~ Archie Legaspi Life is sort of like one long tennis game. You have to give it your best shot and get ready for the next one coming your way. No one has the wisdom to say or do the right thing at the right time every time. You just have to hope you get more right than wrong. \~ Terry Furniss ### The best kind of friend in Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-best-kind-of-friend-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-02-16T02:30:37.000Z I'm blessed to have those friends. We'll quietly sit next to each other, not utter a word then burst out laughing. \~ Margarita Rivera ### When someone appreciates everything about you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-appreciates-everything-about-you/ Last updated: 2024-02-14T02:30:19.000Z My experience to date has been that after leaving the one who took my greatness for granted, realized my greatness after I was gone. You never know what you've got till it's gone. \~ Ingrid Dickson Now it's your turn to appreciate everything that someone else does for you. Don't be afraid to let someone open the door for you and give you a helping hand. \~ Sharon Clark ### There are Two types of people in the world URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/there-are-two-types-of-people-in-the-world/ Last updated: 2024-02-12T02:30:25.000Z Look around you and see the takers. Don't care and they sleep just as well as the givers. In this life but Karma will take care of that in the end. \~ Mary Daniel They are never happy in their hearts and this makes them feel really bad. So, they take what they deserve. \~ Aferdita Bakiu Takers are never satisfied but the givers are always satisfied. \~ Rose Khamis People are designed to be takers, for we are in need every minute of everyday. We should learn to be givers and share our blessings wholeheartedly. ### Love those people who never look at their schedule when you need them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-those-people-who-never-look-at-their-schedule/ Last updated: 2024-02-10T02:30:07.000Z The busiest people are also the best time managers and can find the time if they want to because their time is more structured than most because it has to be. \~ Denise Hecht If you love someone no matter how busy you are, you will do an action for their needs. \~ Babel Aromaz Love the ones that look you straight in the eyes when you are speaking & not at their cell phones. \~ Connie Allen A true friend always has time for you. and is always good at her word. ### Those who don't understand your silence URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/those-who-dont-understand-your-silence/ Last updated: 2024-02-08T02:30:02.000Z Sometimes a person needs peace and quiet and needs silence. To think, to regroup, to have solitude, to read, to just be. If a person doesn't understand the silence in a person, they will never understand their words. \~ Brigitte Nicole If they never understood my words, they won't understand my silence either. Some people are just totally oblivious, so wrapped up in themselves that they can't see someone else is in pain. Using words is a way of communicating. However, it's the unspoken words aka body language that will reveal what a person is truly saying. \~ Elizabeth Castelli I am blessed to have a couple of very good friends who understand my silence. Being silent keeps me from putting my foot in my mouth, I chose to not react; I choose my words carefully. I do not want to have to eat them. \~ Diane Jenks ### You don't need too many people in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-dont-need-too-many-people-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-02-06T02:30:16.000Z Don't waste your time with people who don't appreciate you. Make them appreciate your absence if they don't appreciate your presence. Find humor in your toxic relatives, know that your better than them and let a lot of things they are go through one year and out the other and keep smiling. We all got crazies in our families, just need to know how to deal with them and not take them too seriously at times. \~ Nicole Cooley Sometimes having just ONE FRIEND or TWO in LIFE is ENOUGH. I'd rather have FEW FRIENDS who are TRUE to me rather than a COUPLE OF FRIENDS who would just treat me badly. \~ Regina Abad ### Not everyone who is single is lonely URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/not-everyone-who-is-single-is-lonely/ Last updated: 2024-02-04T02:30:20.000Z Better be single rather than being confused. Your happiness shouldn't depend on the presence or absence of a person. When I was younger I dreamt of a young lady held tightly in my arms and a boy and girl to cherish/ love and teach. Until reality set in with the realization that love loyalty and devotion has a different meaning to some then to others. The years passed and at least I never have given a vow to God without being able to keep it. Sometimes I still dream of a good woman but now my solitary independence somehow seems more peaceful and content. Truly some can be lonelier in a relationship than some being single. \~ Timothy Lavender Better to be honest with yourself and the ones around you than in a relationship where they lie to your face. \~ Chris Litz ### Hate in your Heart will consume you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/hate-in-your-heart-will-consume-you/ Last updated: 2024-02-02T02:30:46.000Z Some people could make you mad at times but one thing I will never do is hate someone. Maybe dislike someone but not hate even if they disrespect. \~ Cindy Newby You teach people how to treat you. Faith without works is dead. You are expected to do your part as well. Don't just sit back and expect God to do it all. If someone is mistreating you, remove them from your life. Tell them that you will not tolerate being disrespected. How will they know unless you tell them. \~ Yvette Martin He gives us free will & we are not to judge or we will be judged accordingly. He is the only one that can judge, not one of us is perfect so we cannot cast the 1st stone. His time is not like our time; He is a right on time God. God waited 18 years to answer 1 of my on going prayers & I am so thankful. I waited on that answered prayer. He was testing me to see if I really trusted Him & had I not given it to Him someone would have been killed. I praise & thank Him everyday for giving me the strength to wait on Him and yes He did handle it. You do reap what you sow. \~ Brenda Reeves ### When you start to wonder whether you can trust someone or not URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-start-to-wonder-whether-you-can-trust-someone-or-not/ Last updated: 2024-01-30T02:30:26.000Z Beware the wolf in sheep clothing. Always follow your gut feeling. It won't let you down. Can't teach a old dog new tricks. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame one me. You don't need to be enemies but me more careful on who you let close too you heart. We learn from our mistakes by not repeating them. \~ Nicole Cooley ### Two people who truly want to be together URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/two-people-who-truly-want-to-be-together/ Last updated: 2024-01-28T02:30:49.000Z Two people who are humble enough to admit and acknowledge their mistakes and are willing to both work at changing. \~ Stéphanie Carter Both should take their time and effort to build a strong relationship & also friendship together as well to have it good. They also need transparency and openess from two people who sincerely want to make it work. If all the effort is all one-sided eventually it will fail before it has even started. I am privileged to have a relationship were both of us strive to make it work. It is humbling to have a partner that compliments you. \~ Lee Ahenjir ### Take time for the people in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/take-time-for-the-people-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-01-26T02:30:27.000Z Life is very short! People need to take time and stop and smell the roses. Enjoy the people that are in your lives and look for new opportunities to find new ones. \~ Michael Cook Sadly too many take one another for granted thinking they will live forever. If only more knew how precious every moment truly is, then maybe they would choose words and actions more wisely. \~ Stuart Hall I learned the hard way by losing a loved one suddenly..Now I take time for the ones who truly mean the world to me. \~ Debbie Ballant ### Don't trust words. Trust actions! URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-trust-words-trust-actions/ Last updated: 2024-01-24T02:30:12.000Z Words are nothing unless they proved by action. If you can't effort to make your action as according to your words. You should enhance your capacity to burn them in instead of let them out. \~ Dina Ismail I hate to break it to all you kids with trust issues, but while there is a much higher percentage that actions will prove to be true. If you think this is 100% accurate and base everything on action you never met a sociopath, because they will talk the talk, tell you what you want to hear, walk the walk and do all of the things you could ever have longed for, then turn around and break you for everything they have. There is no game in life where you can accurately tell someone's intentions. You either trust our you don't. If you trust you either get a reward our a lesson. Or you have the option to not play at all and give up on experiencing life because you are too afraid of failure or hurt. It's your choice what you do and how you approach it. This often is a fairly good way, but the best outcome is to stop worrying about others so much and just do your best be your best, be honest, worry about what you are doing, because aside from running into a sociopath chances are if someone is not showing specific actions you are looking for you tend to be doing the same pour similar repeating the cycle indefinitely for yourself. \~ Ryan Bailey ### The Best portion of your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-best-portion-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2024-01-22T02:30:46.000Z Appreciate the little things in life as they occupy a big part in someone's heart. Happiness, joy and laughter shared with those we love and even strangers. Every moment in the now is precious. It is always those sweet moments that return to us when we most need them. Everything else is a waste of time. \~ Marie Perrakis ### Physical attractions are common URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/physical-attractions-are-common/ Last updated: 2024-01-20T02:30:06.000Z The longer the relationship lasts, the more important the mental connection becomes. Attractions and connections can only go so far. It's a mutual wanting that creates something special. Many physical attractions go away, but the mental connection takes time, and it is rare. Never say "I love you" the first time you have a close relationship with someone. You don't even know them. \~ Mary Sparks **So many times you think you are on the same page with someone, then you turn that page over and read the back side and find out their in a whole different book. \~ Jeff Everett** Though the sex maybe so good, but it will soon loss it's luster if you can't also stimulate my mind. \~ Jerome Whitaker ### Dear God, From the bottom of my Heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dear-god-from-the-bottom-of-my-heart/ Last updated: 2024-01-18T02:30:53.000Z I want to thank you from bottom of my heart for giving me a wonderful life. I met some selfish people in my life but I still want to thank you them because they taught me a lesson. Thank you God! \~ Shaveta Sharma Thank you God for your love when I didn't deserve it and thank you for being with me in the deepest darkness I was in and saving me when I had nothing but despair and couldn't see the light or feel hope thank you God for finding me and bringing me home. \~ Elizabeth Raines ### Two Best cures for anything URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/two-best-cures-for-anything/ Last updated: 2024-01-16T02:30:09.000Z Sometimes a good cry also works. A pinch of love, some nice food, a comforting shoulder, a quiet corner, away from the world, and certainly miles apart from the ones who caused the mess helps too. \~ Uma Kishore ### When you try to control everything URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-try-to-control-everything/ Last updated: 2024-01-14T02:30:09.000Z Some people are so involved into others lives that they do not enjoy their own lives. They do not realized they have turn into their mothers who they have bother them so much during their entire lives. Let go, enjoy your live and give the power to God. Just lay everything in God's hand. He will take control of all your needs and when we try to take control are selfs, how frustrating it is and what a mess it becomes later. \~ Linda Rutherford ### There are some people who won't understand you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/there-are-some-people-who-wont-understand-you/ Last updated: 2024-01-12T02:30:26.000Z Don't let go of someone who makes you a better person. If you can't understand my silences. You will never understand my words. If you have to speak a thousand words on a topic, the people listening aren't the only ones that don't understand you. The others must be true friends. What we don't say speaks volumes. \~ Mike Cronk ### When you are temporarily upset URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-are-temporarily-upset/ Last updated: 2024-01-10T02:30:09.000Z Take a breath and make the decision when you are calmer. Never make threats when you're angry and promises when you're happy. Sometimes we need to not react when we are upset because we say or so things that cause permanent heart break to our selves and others. \~ Tammy Morrison Actions that come from anger only bring you down to their level and are never worth it. The only thing other people deserve from you is to see you walk away. \~ Lorrie Dewitt Some people do that. I was unfriended and blocked by a "friend." I didn't know why. then, a few days later I received a friend request. What? \~ Gina Krupsky ### Sometimes, it's not the pain that makes you suffer URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-its-not-the-pain-that-makes-you-suffer/ Last updated: 2024-01-08T00:30:59.000Z Most of human suffering begins with " our self-talk" which is usually negative. Talking with the wrong people makes you negative minded. Stay way from them. Dwelling on something makes a situation worse. Accept it for what it is, and move on. You cannot change the past. \~ Barbara Butler ### When you least expect it, something great will come along URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-least-expect-it-something-great-will-come-along/ Last updated: 2024-01-06T02:30:12.000Z Be Patient and wait for the God's timing. Stay focused, not confused. Sometimes things have to go very wrong before they can be very right. Be patient, good is coming. Trouble may not be here for long, so embrace it and don't waste a single moment. \~ Sabena Thorne To be surprised of lives outcome always shows us that life is greater than we can ever imagine or dream about. ### When you don't get what you want URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-dont-get-what-you-want/ Last updated: 2024-01-04T02:30:13.000Z That's called unanswered prayers. When you are strong in your faith, He grants you what you want eventually. You just got to keep believing, never lose hope! Everything happens for a reason, so when I don't get what I want I figure it wasn't meant for me, or wouldn't be right. \~ Betty O'Brien When my husband was dying of cancer he prayed for a miracle, seeing that was not going to happen he thanked God for the good life that he had given him. \~ Cathy Key ### A Friend who understands your tears URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-friend-who-understands-your-tears/ Last updated: 2024-01-02T02:30:04.000Z True friends are always there with you in good or bad. True friends always acts like shock absorbers on life roadways, it softens the blows, potholes and negative actions coming our way. ### Those who have goodness in their Heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/those-who-have-goodness-in-your-heart/ Last updated: 2023-12-30T02:30:41.000Z If you allow yourself to become a person who doesn't believe this then you too become part of the problem and the same type of people that cause you to fill that way. Don't let the coldness of others cause you to become part of the problem. Have faith, stand strong, be safe but become part of the solution. \~ Lea Tomblin You must enter the relationship with an open mind about trusting. It must be very exhausting to always be second guessing someone. Building trust takes time, you need to show your partner that you are also trustworthy and that you trust them in return. \~ Brigitte Nicole There are good people. Looks can be deceiving. Many people that seem like they are good are not, they are just good at pretending. Then, there are people that seem bad but are very good people. It's a tough world we live in. \~ Shannen Grimes People may not intention to hurt you but we still need to select with practically processing from time to time to have fully trust on someone. However, I still have faith in human and I believe not all people are badly just need time to create our own magnet where same people get together. \~ Lisa Chien Don't allow the world control you. Be yourself! Follow the goodness in your heart. Have faith in give all to the highest our God. He guides you in the life that you want to be. \~ Francisca Pavasson ### Timing is everything URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/timing-is-everything/ Last updated: 2023-12-28T02:30:03.000Z Right time. Right place. Right situation. Good things come to those who wait & have faith. Having the patience to wait is the hardest part. If you feel like you have been praying for something for a while and it hasn't come along, don't give up hope. It will come along when you are best equipped for it. Sometimes when you least expect them. ### The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-moment-you-feel-like-you-have-to-prove/ Last updated: 2023-12-26T02:30:17.000Z You can disagree on many - many things and still have respect for each other. But the minute you feel undervalued in any relationship you need to re-assess what is important to you as a person. \~ Barb Wilson Prove yourself first to God then second to yourself and third the rest can either hate you or love you. Always be yourself and if you are not valued walk away. Positive criticism is good, but when someone makes you feel less to lift themselves, then get away from them. \~ Daniel Medina No one should take advantage of someone's good nature. ### Sometimes you have to love people from a distance URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-have-to-love-people-from-a-distance/ Last updated: 2023-12-24T02:30:36.000Z Be careful who you let back in, they may not be done hurting you. \~ Gabriela Blanco Sometimes they never get themselves together or learn their lessons. It takes a person wanting to change and doing the work to realize their mistakes or lack of appreciation that they had in whatever type of relationship it was. We live in a fast paced society that people most often feel if you don't want to accept it anymore someone else will. \~ Vivian Thercy Unfortunately, this is sometimes necessary to preserve sanity when the world's chaos manifests itself in other human beings. If everyone could leave their egos at the door, so to speak, and operate only from the heart there would be fewer confrontations, fewer conflicts, and greater peace all around. Love is all there is and all that matters when all is said and one. \~ Pat Winstead ### Three things you should never sacrifice in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/three-things-you-should-never-sacrifice-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-12-22T02:30:29.000Z Your spouse is your family. You never sacrifice your spouse for anyone, not your mother, father, sister, brother, friend. etc. \~ Toad Slipdragon Never sacrifice family doesn't apply for abusive families and/or members which would require you to sacrifice your dignity. Walking away from them because you value your your dignity and self respect more than you value being used and/or treated like crap, otherwise they would still be an active part of your life. The reason so many either stay in situations like that is because 1) They do not value their own self-worth enough to get out. 2) They do believe in blood family and struggle with guilty feelings because of that. It isn't easy to walk away from. 3) They do not understand that walking away doesn't mean you don't love them as human beings or wish the best for them, it means you love yourself enough not to allow someone else to bring you down. You protect your heart, your dignity, your health and even your sanity by doing so. \~ Danyelle Jumonville ### Time is like a river URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/time-is-like-a-river/ Last updated: 2023-12-20T02:30:10.000Z **No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. \~ Heraclitus** **The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now. Wasted time means wasted lives. \~ Eyad Tag** **Enjoy the little things for one day, you may look back all realize they were the big moments.** Time is also like a book, so every page should be written with faith, hope and love. Enjoy every moment in life, the bad and good ones. Both bring something that you need. ### Someone will walk into your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-will-walk-into-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-12-18T02:30:53.000Z It happened to me after so many mistakes and let downs. Don't give up. Trust that God will bless you when the time is right. \~ Glenda Williamson Happiness start from within not without us and everything else will follow. If it never you still have happiness. \~ Shar Tay You are at a interchange in you life. Your now has closed the door to your past. Your now is opening your future. Do not try to fit you and what your currently know in to this day. But rather pray with abandon and keep your radar screen up for the various moves of God that are coming into your life. Expect the unexpected and expect it to be bigger then what you are thinking. God is going to start with a snow flake and end with a snow ball. One of things He is calling you to will "snow ball" and just grow and grow and grow beyond what you could imagine. The joy of the Lord is your strength and you are getting stronger and stronger everyday. \~ Mary Wiley ### Happiness doesn't start with relationship URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/happiness-doesnt-start-with-relationship/ Last updated: 2023-12-16T02:30:24.000Z Only we our responsible for our own happiness. But everyone expects others to make them happy. Laugh and the world laughs with you cry and you cry alone. All starts with loving your own self and everything else will follow. Happiness is inside us but these things influence it as well depending how emotionally and psychologically weak or strong a person is. Life is a choice. We choose every day to be happy or not. Happiness is not something that just happens to you. When you start to be positive in life, you will be happy and everything else will be fine, just you have to make the first step. I did find happiness in my job. In fact, it was my happiness. When I lost the job I lost my happiness. I have to learn to find this within myself. \~ Mona Phillips ### To make the difference in someone's life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/to-make-the-difference-in-someones-life/ Last updated: 2023-12-14T02:30:44.000Z Care without expectation is the heart of a true friend. A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks. Caring with unconditional love comes easily to those that have a softened heart. They understand empathy, but for some who have hardened hearts will not see past themselves and know not empathy. \~ Stuart Karen Caring and sharing makes worthwhile living, while ignoring and self centeredness which will always be lingering darkens our daily living. ### No matter how badly people treat you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-badly-people-treat-you/ Last updated: 2023-12-12T02:30:20.000Z When people try to bring you down, it simply means you are above them. Never argue with a fool because he will bring you down to his level and then beat you with experience. More often than not, they treat you poorly to make them feel better about themselves. It's their problem, not yours. Smile and keep walking. Life is too short to waste time and energy on those whose main purpose is to make others feel bad. \~ Randy Dorilag I left a past job due to this. Wanted so bad to fight but I knew that's what they wanted so I just flew away. Feeling much better now with better job. \~ David Velasquez ### Judge people by their actions, not words URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/judge-people-by-their-actions-not-words/ Last updated: 2023-12-10T02:30:29.000Z Some people their words does not have any value it's like water under a bridge. Words mean nothing, could have been said a million times but it's the actions that show you the true person. A sociopath almost always knows exactly what to say while getting exactly what they want and harming others. Actions are the result of choices made. If the same choices keep being made and actions not changing decide if this is the best life for you, release and let go with love. \~ Keryl Jamieson Your behavior will always tell on you. On a side note don't sleep the words either for "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue" as well. Let that marinate. \~ Tony Winger Words are like little promises told. Deeds and time will show were they just words. Never trust words too fast. Seek the heart and spirit behind them. There are so many people just wanting to use us for their own wants. We need to be a little old fashioned. Have time and truly find out persons intentions. Usually the bigger words, the smaller deeds. To say nice words it just takes an open mouth and some seconds. To really Love, it is a way of living. \~ Sari Lundberg ### Some people forget the times you were there for them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-forget-who-was-always-there-for-you/ Last updated: 2023-12-08T02:30:46.000Z I'll never forget how many countless times you were there for me when no one else was. \~ Helen Heslin Some people forget the times you were there for them because they are too busy patting their own backs for what they did for you. \~ Beverly Hadley Some people take for granted. They think you should drop what your doing for them take them places and never help you with gas but they want you to pick them up and run them all over. If my truck or car was broke down they won't help me, they can just walk to where they want to go they do it any other time. \~ Roxanne Buzzard ### When someone take advantage of your weaknesses URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-take-advantage-of-your-weaknesses/ Last updated: 2023-12-06T02:30:41.000Z Sometimes people take your kindness as your weakness. You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only option. Sometimes you won't know your strengths until you reach the bottom pit of your life. ### We don't meet people by accident URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-dont-meet-people-by-accident/ Last updated: 2023-12-04T02:30:37.000Z Sometimes you wish they would just keep on walking instead of stopping to ask the time. \~ Janet Grieves People are in our life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. People in my life, that I have considered to be my friend, are my friend for a lifetime. \~ Unknown Whether the reason is good or bad, it all happens for a much bigger purpose in our lives. I have been extremely grateful for most of the people who have crossed my path, and for those who hurt me deeply, it was a life lesson to keep the faith and keep moving forward. I may have stumbled, but I did not fall. \~ Christine Faciane God put us on the same path destined to meet and hold hands together for the rest of our lives and to love each other with all our hearts can be capable of loving until death do us part. \~ Michael Shoyer I always think of this when I "run into" someone I've not seen in awhile or cross paths with a stranger. Had I been just a few minutes/seconds earlier/later, I would not have crossed paths with them. God makes my life joyful in unexpected ways. \~ Deb Walther ### When you will know a Relationship is right for you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-will-know-a-relationship-is-right-for-you/ Last updated: 2023-12-02T02:30:46.000Z People are complicated not the relationships. Solitude is simple like a map with just one road. \~ Roumana Rodos Relationships require effort, but when effort requires an one -sided act of hard labor, it's time to re-evaluate the worth of the relationship. \~ Marshall Allen Relationships take work but if they bring out the worst in you and not the best, than its not the right one. The right one makes you want to be better than before. Once you find it, everything just seems to be so comfortable like you are finally where you belonged all along. \~ Angel Whitaker ### Always Trust your gut feelings URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/always-trust-your-gut-feelings/ Last updated: 2023-11-30T02:30:35.000Z When you don't listen to that little voice you will regret it. Learning to trust & believe that gut instinct can be scary at first but it is always going to be right. \~ Jenny Deiss I call this "The Voice Of God" I always listen! \~ Denise McMahon I always get myself in trouble when I ignore my gut. \~ Dawn Loehr ### Live your Life without stress & worries URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/live-your-life-without-stress-worries/ Last updated: 2023-11-28T02:30:46.000Z Happiness comes without worries and stress goes with money. There is no happiness without sadness. You cannot be happy or understand it unless you've experienced sadness. The way to be happy is to forget being rich and famous. Give love to those who mean the most to you and let them do the same. \~ Linda Nelson Stress and worries are part of everyday life. It is how we manage or deal with the stress and worries that counts. There is no need to be rich or famous, that is a misconception of our society. Be yourself, and chose how you will live your life and that may be without a lot of monetary gains, but remember in our world a little extra cash helps out in time of need. What defines your happiness, may be a question to ask yourself. Is there a struggle within yourself that is robbing you of a inner joy once known in the past. Ask God to help you through this. \~ Heather Jackson I don't need to live in a mansion, drive a luxury car, or own a private island. I don't want to be popular, famous, or live in the spotlight. I don't need to be a size 0, have a designer wardrobe, or look like a supermodel. I just want to be happy, healthy & have love in my Heart. \~ Lisa Maria ### Stop worrying about pleasing others so much URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/stop-worrying-about-pleasing-others-so-much/ Last updated: 2023-11-26T02:30:37.000Z Do one thing that makes you happy everyday. If you are not happy with yourself, you are never going to be happy with someone else. If it makes you happy is one thing 'Go for it'. However, if pleasing others is to the neglect of the self or 'fear' (worry) how others perceive or judge (to me) is not living in your truth, but trying to measure to other people's standards. It isn't from a place of love, but fear/worry and suppresses the spirit. \~ Elizabeth Biroscak No one will look after you, but you. Be happy! Life is too short. It has taken me a while to realize that, but I have learned a lot of hard knocks of life and no one was there for me. \~ Claire Cook The problem is knowing who you really are true friends. There are those who just want to take advantage of any situation or those who are always willing to help and hear us in difficult moments. Like who you like and considers you a friend, others just ignore it. Life is too short. We are here for a good time, not a long time. Enjoy the moment, keep it positive, keep good company and keep it moving. \~ Alonzo Marquez Life has made me real. Used to try to please everyone else, then I woke up to the importance of being at peace with myself. \~ Diane Costa ### Your presence & absence both mean something to someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/your-presence-absence-both-mean-something-to-someone/ Last updated: 2023-11-24T02:30:39.000Z Absence makes the heart grow fonder and presence makes it more stronger. If you care about someone you need to let them know. People cannot read minds. If you don't they just might leave to find someone who will let them know they mean something and the only person you'll be able to blame is yourself. \~ Dee Cutrell It is all about caring, to be with that one person who gives happiness is amazing and to be separated from that person is good to know that you wait for the day when you can be together again. Both presence and absence mean something special to those two people. \~ Margaret Perry The absence of my love makes me think of her every day. I just hope that my absence makes her think of me from time to time. I miss her more each and every day. \~ Philip Marsh ### It can take years to build Trust URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/it-can-take-years-to-build-trust/ Last updated: 2023-11-22T02:30:29.000Z Once broken, it can never be the same again. No such thing as "Repair", once broken that's it. Move on. Fool me once your fault, fool me twice, my fault. Trust lost can never be fully regained. There will always be an element of doubt and you cannot have a healthy relationship without complete trust. \~ Peter Wiltsey ### You don't have to make room for people who cause you pain URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-dont-have-to-make-room-for-people-who-cause-you-pain/ Last updated: 2023-11-20T02:30:05.000Z The problem is that toxic people are usually manipulators and control freaks who prey on those of us who are completely opposite. They are the ones with the hangups and problems but shift it onto others to make themselves feel better, but its only temporary and the cycle continues for them. They are like spiders in a web, waiting for the right time to make their move and attack the unsuspecting. \~ Sandra Benvie You can only control your own life and how you feel. Just because someone is related to you doesn't mean you have to have a relationship with them, nor do you owe them loyalty. Some of our best and closest 'family' is the one we create out of the love and caring of the friends in our lives. \~ Mary Hinnenkamp It frees you from all the negativity that person brings to your life and makes room for people who will enrich your life. It's about knowing your worth and respecting yourself enough to make positive change in your life and if that means some people have to go so be it. \~ Annie Osinga I've gone no contact with two sisters. The only thing we shared was dna, the relationship was not based on love, respect or responsibility. We aren't property, we're people who deserve reciprocity in our relationships. If they can't give us the love and respect we give to them for whatever reason, they must go. \~ Jacob Mitchel ### When you look back on your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-look-back-on-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-11-18T02:30:51.000Z The hardships in life helps us grow as individuals, which in turn can help make the changes in our lives that are needed in order to become more confident and happy. \~ Camilla Petersen Every painful event, every heartache is a milestone on the path of your personal development. If you know that one day you will see the positive reason behind this heartache, you can move through it without bringing with you all of the baggage that brought it into your life to begin with. \~ Blair Robinson We are stronger than we think. One day at a time, one foot in front of the other. Take time to be grateful for something each day. I found this really helps even amid the ugliest of circumstances. \~ Tracey Dillon Don't give up. Surround yourself with positive people, it's really contagious and it helps so much. It's a start & life will change. You will start seeing it through new eyes. Hang in there. God Bless you. \~ Brigitte Nicole Without confidence in ourselves. We suffer many hardships and without faith and trust in God, our lives are incomplete. \~ John Laramie We live life to gain experience . From those experiences we must look back and remember the truths to acquire the wisdom from life's events. If you receive this wisdom, one must be strong and courageous enough to become a leader and example for others to learn so they may achieve more in this short adventure we call life. From our sacrifices others may prosper. \~ Aaron Wiley I also see joy, sound choices, wonder and awe. We are so much more than the result of hurts. It is great to see the positives that can come from the hurts, but don't forget the blessings. \~ Erin Boyd ### If there's someone you cannot get out of your mind URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-theres-someone-you-cannot-get-out-of-your-mind/ Last updated: 2023-11-16T02:30:31.000Z May the person I'm thinking of tonight, find his way home, establish roots where his heart is, wherever that is. \~ Alexa Oertzen Knowing that He hears me when I pray = priceless. Believing that he understands when there are no words = trust . Knowing that He knows my heart = faith. \~ Jeri Porcaro Ask not what God can do but what you can do for God. Ask for a sign, God will reveal the answer. \~ Bibbie Wilson ### The best Gift a man can give to his woman URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-best-gift-a-man-can-give-to-his-woman/ Last updated: 2023-11-14T02:30:56.000Z Best thing a woman can do is return it. When I see a happy woman who is committed it is because of the love and attention her love gives her. \~ Victoria Mack ### If someone seriously wants to be a part of your life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-someone-seriously-wants-to-be-a-part-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-11-12T02:30:09.000Z If it is too hard to get together and only one person seems to be working at the relationship that it is not really meant to be. If someone loves you, there should be no excuse. They should be willing to move mountains & do whatever it takes to be with you. Love should be 50 50 not 80 20 or 70 30\. My hubby stood by me when the rough got going. Love sometimes can be a battle field. Never giving up & have hope together. It's a wonderful feeling when both partners are on the same page. Love should be reciprocated by each other. \~ Julie Armstrong At some points of time I seriously just get tired with trying to keep in touch and seeing no response from those who I care for. So now I am just at the point where after trying a few times. I just give up. There is no point in continuing friendship if it gives you hard times. ### Some people cross your mind every day URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-cross-your-mind-every-day/ Last updated: 2023-11-10T02:30:20.000Z Those are the ones who have left footprints on your heart. There are just some people that you are not meant to forget; for whatever reason. Our minds are set to be as our working engine. It never stop thinking people who have great impacts in our lives. The greater you value that person, the more you can't neglect the fact of letting that person go out of your mind for a single reason you yourself can or can't merely explain. \~ Lhanz Ubaldo Deep in our hearts, we still love and care for them. If it's possible for us to say 'hello' to them why don't we do it now. It would make them glad and happy. \~ Juliena Damos They just did something very unbearable to you that's why you're still unable to forget them. ### Sometimes you just have to bow your head URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-just-have-to-bow-your-head/ Last updated: 2023-11-08T02:30:04.000Z Life isn't just about weathering the storm, it's about how well you can dance in the rain. Sunshine comes after each storm. You just have to have faith and tough it out. Life makes us pass through many a test. Not giving up and passing many tests is the key to survival on earth. ### Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/healing-doesnt-mean-the-damage-never-existed/ Last updated: 2023-11-06T02:30:38.000Z It's just like a movie going over and over in your head and it won't stop but the hope is still there in your mind. \~ Alisa Schiller It's a process. Time heals our wounds though a scar or two would left its mark upon us. It says you're able to let go, outlived, outgrow, your outlook and priority changed for the better. You've matured. You are a changed person. \~ Ace Lagasca If anything from your past still makes you emotional enough to do something you wouldn't normally do, you are definitely not over it. It's controlling you. \~ Wanda Raucci If we learn from that damage, we can hopefully prevent it from happening again. \~ Jerry Welch ### How to forget about everything for a little while? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/how-to-forget-about-everything-for-a-little-while/ Last updated: 2023-11-04T02:30:58.000Z Reality is too painful. Sleep is sometimes the only escape. What sucks is waking up and having all the bad stuff creep back into your peaceful mind. \~ Edie Suire Sometimes your dreams give you clues about what is truly bothering you and what you need to pay attention to. \~ Brigitte Nicole When I use my dreams to know what is bothering me I call them vision. That means God is trying to show me something. \~ Mary Njoku You dream about what you want and wake-up and find out that you can't have it. The trouble is wanting to sleep forever. \~ Scott Beriont ### No matter how good or bad your Life is URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-good-or-bad-your-life-is/ Last updated: 2023-11-02T02:30:28.000Z Always be thankful for another day of life. Some people are fighting for another day. Being thankful and being happy are choices we make. If you want to look at the negative, you will be negative. Choose to be thankful & happy. Living with incurable cancer makes each day you wake up a bonus praise the lord for another day to celebrate. \~ Sylvia Gapp I'm grateful for every day, the peace that comes along with it, everyday I pray that the world feels is peaceful and non-discriminatory as I do. Peace on earth. \~ Johnny Capparelli When I open my eyes I say Thank You to God for waking me up & giving me the gift of seeing another day. \~ Valerie Bowers Life is good and even with the bad I am ready to tack it on and be who I have to be to show that I am who I said I am and that I can do it, I just hope that it's not too late. \~ John Starrett ### Anyone can be nice when they want something from you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/anyone-can-be-nice-when-they-want-something-from-you/ Last updated: 2023-10-30T02:30:39.000Z Every look they have, every move they make and every step they make. All of these actions give a complete summary of a person. How they speak about others if they are always calling people words like dumb, stupid, ugly or just saying negative things constantly about someone else. I take notes because even though it may not be directed towards me it's an indication that's the person they truly are. \~ Daphne Johnson Anyone can be nice when they want something from you, it shows you nothing. Look at how they act towards you when they don't get what they want, that will tell you everything you need to know. \~ Stu Dancelifts It's really a sad how that type of person is secretly hurting because of how they feel about their self and because of the wrong thinking they choose to use. \~ Jimi Fisher ### Sometimes you have to give up on some people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-have-to-give-up-on-some-people/ Last updated: 2023-10-28T02:30:04.000Z No point having anyone in your life who does not want to be there. Better to find someone who smiles at the mere thought of you, who see your true value and shows it in their actions. A person like that makes you feel alive. You will find someone who is "wowed" by who you are. Hang in there! You are worth so much more than an average relationship. Keep looking and you will find the one who loves the real you. \~ Stu Dancelifts Some people are weights. No matter how hard you try to pull them up they insist on sinking. After a while its just easier to let go and let them continue on their journey without you. \~ Judith McCrodden What is the the point of chasing after certain people to be friends when they have no interest in being friends with you. \~ Jeanne Young I don't ever give up on people but I do set boundaries if I feel they don't care and make certain they are not at the "center" of my life. \~ Anne McDougle ### If anyone betrayed you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-anyone-betrayed-you/ Last updated: 2023-10-26T02:30:08.000Z We have to forgive. It's a gift we give ourselves. Sometimes we can't see because we trust to easily. Our heart isn't blind it's just too pure to expect the evil around us. \~ Sahar Elmansy You are so blinded by love when you are in a relationship, but sometimes when you're on the outside looking in it's different. \~ Amie Kaufman Sometimes I don't see the bad in people. It's hard to understand why did I think they were good human's but there is always one. I do forgive but I never forget. \~ Laura Berman Sometimes we are blind because we loved and trusted them too much. Eventually the blinds are lifted and leave the past where it belongs. \~ Margarita Rivera You have to keep others from making you shut off the good in you because there is always someone who recognizes and appreciates. It just may be someone you less suspect. \~ Gwen Logan Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your present and future. Let go, forgive and move forward. Just because the past didn't turn out like you had hoped, doesn't mean your future cant be better than you had envisioned. Forgiveness is very important. Don't carry with anger because it's going to hurt you & not the other person. Remember life is just a one time experience. Put everything in God's hand. \~ Elisay Aranda ### It's better to have nobody URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/its-better-to-have-nobody/ Last updated: 2023-10-24T02:30:29.000Z Better alone than in bad company. Better to have five minutes with someone you than spend a lifetime with someone you don't love. I love my man even though he can't speak, I can still feel every word that he would like to say. God blessed me with him. \~ Melanie Johnson Having a small group of trusted friends would be better. People whom you can disclose all things about you without worrying if the not so good ever comes out to devour you than hundreds of them whom you are not even sure if they won’t mock you. If ever they would find out the bad side of you. \~ Janes Padioan Some of us just don't ever learn to enjoy our own company because that's where the demons live. \~ Janie McNeil That's why I got a dog they stay with you and give you 110% all the time through thick and thin no questions asked. \~ Michael Perry ### The words we leave unspoken URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-words-we-leave-unspoken/ Last updated: 2023-10-22T02:30:53.000Z Both the good and the bad. We regret not saying I love you when we lose a loved one. But sometimes we lose a loved one because we left things unsaid like an apology. \~ Randy Strang Always tell the folks you love that you love them. Always try hard to be kind with your words, especially when things aren't going quite your way. \~ Joanne Kuzborski Sometimes the words I didn't have the courage to say, had I said them, would have made a world of difference at least in how I feel. Instead I am left with regret. \~ Randy Holm On the other hand, sometimes the words we speak shouldn't have been spoken and the most important words that shouldn't have been said. \~ Brenda Hauck ### Loyalty should be rewarded not taken advantage of URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/loyalty-should-be-rewarded-not-taken-advantage-of/ Last updated: 2023-10-20T02:30:05.000Z True loyalty should be appreciated and valued not abused and taken undue advantage of. Honest/loyal/straightforward person/people is/are the best and when they can't put up with and decide to get rid of/walk away from some fake friends/liars/haters/troublemakers. They never look back and won't care/accept that anymore. \~ Cindy Nguyen When I was young I dreamt of a woman whom I could hold tightly in my arms. To love with all my soul devotion and respect. I dreamt of a boy and girl also giving all my love and devotion to and teaching them the rights and the wrongs of life. Then reality set in that the meaning of love has a different meaning to some than to others. I thank God that I have never given nor broken my word when spoken unto him in a vow of marriage. A man should always be true to his word when given. Few are and I have never expected any more in women from experience. Sometimes people in relationships are lonelier than those that are single. I am the latter but you never lose the loyalty or the caring of love. Just the hope in finding it in return. I hope those that seek find one that will walk beside them. One that welds each others hearts into one spirit beating in rythem as two in love should do. Most find the opposite of ones self. Leaving a taste of bitterness but learning a lesson in life. The three most precious things God has given us is faith hope and love. Love is the essence of our being and hope is the search in finding it. Faith is the reality of keeping it. Good things take time in growing and lust when young is often confused as love. Sometimes you have to step back and sow the seeds for a new beginning. With the hope and faith that love will grow as it should in truth into the mighty oak growing stronger each day. \~ Timothy Lavender ### Never give permanent feelings to a temporary person URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-give-permanent-feelings-to-a-temporary-person/ Last updated: 2023-10-18T02:30:09.000Z Never make permanent decision on temporary situation too. Be very careful who you trust and who you tell your secrets to. If they aren't willing to put in the effort to make the relationship work then they are temporary in your life. \~ Deborah Schaub When you give permanent feelings to someone you don't expect them to be temporary. \~ Philip Marsh You can't know who is permanent or temporary. Life is unpredictable and relationships too. People changes with time. \~ Rishika Khanna There are two possibilities only. First: you are superficial because you maybe have fear to get hurt. Then you are always the temporary person and will never get in touch with permanent feelings. Second: you show from the beginning permanent feelings if the other person really interests you. So you will have a 50:50 chance that you have met a permanent person, too. \~ Rita Lob No one is promised a tomorrow; so it goes to say that people are here to stay no matter what. One reason that those whom you love deeply need to know. I always try to make my goodbyes real because you just never know what lies around the next bend. \~ Melanie Dewar ### Thank God for another day URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/thank-god-for-another-day/ Last updated: 2023-10-16T02:30:17.000Z We will waste the day, whining, complaining and blaming others and forgetting all about God and what He has given to us. \~ Robert Miller Thank God I'm here to see another day. You never know what time or day you going to leave. So humble yourself to God. Take him into your heart. \~ Merci Franklin **If God came and told you that you have 5 minutes before he takes you home with him can you honestly say you are proud of how you spent your day today. \~ Louis Bushay** **Not only should we be grateful to God for waking us up everyday but keep in mind he does this so that we are giving our bodies as a living sacrifice and doing his will. \~ David Sanchez** ### Let go of things that don't matter URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/let-go-of-things-that-dont-matter/ Last updated: 2023-10-14T02:30:19.000Z Everything doesn't matter. Pick and choose what's important in life. Don't worry about the things you can't control or trivial things/small stuff, so you can enjoy things that are important to you. \~ Brigitte Nicole There's no lesson learned with regard to worrying about things that you do not have control of or sweating the small stuff. Emotionally challenged people, for lack of better understanding, do worry about almost everything. \~ Charles Cruz Don't beat yourself up over a mistake. Yesterday is gone, to marrow isn't promised to us, so live today in the light of the positive. Today is the only day you can control. \~ Sherry Peek I ended a long friendship with a negative person, and thus being freed up to become a happier person myself. \~ Jo Day ### What is your Greatest test in your Life? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/what-is-your-greatest-test-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-10-12T02:30:56.000Z Sometimes the best way of getting through the storms in your own life is to help someone in their storm. \~ Kimberly Baggerly I'm no authority, however when I do this, my storm settles somewhat or even dissolves into nothing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with feeling good after and during and blessing someone else. As long as it is done out of true caring and love. \~ David Carbonara If you can do this, it will make your storm not near so hard, so not only ask God for strength to get through your storm but ask for how you can help someone else through their storm. \~ Don Brunk ### People who never look at time when you need them URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-never-look-at-time-when-you-need-them/ Last updated: 2023-10-10T02:30:45.000Z When you love someone, you will make time for them no matter what, no excuses. \~ Gemma Morales Life is too short. Family & Friends who actually care about each other always find time for one another. In good times & bad times. Scheduled or not. Unexpected or expected. Whenever, as long as they actually are genuinely glad to spend quality time with you. \~ Teresa Morales If it's important to you you'll find a way if not you'll find an excuse. A lot of times people don't know how much it means when they're there for someone and a lot of times people are just too selfish. "How is that even possible?" ain't even a valid question. \~ Betül Eroglu When we have people in our lives who always have excuses when you need help, but you are always there for them when they need help. Sometimes we have people in our lives who are primarily "takers" and if you tend to be a strong "giver" then you find yourself being hurt as time passes and they always have excuses to why they can't be there for you. Hence, love the friends who are there for you. Cherish them because you're truly blessed to have them in your life and the opposite is true. If you are always there for others then they are truly blessed to have you in their lives. The one's who you can't remember the last time they were there for you, but can remember the last dozen excuses they gave for not being there or didn't take your call or respond. Well care for them the best you can and try to accept them as they are or let them go and hope they will grow and realize that love/friendship takes effort, not a lot but atleast a little effort on their part if they truly value it. If they don't then move past the hurt of that realization and love the people that truly love you back. \~ Michelle Finch Those are the people who matter most in your life and who are your true friends and family. Thank you to all my family members and very special friends for always being there at the right time. Much, much appreciated. \~ Ruwaida Fourie ### When someone Loves you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-someone-loves-you/ Last updated: 2023-10-08T02:30:46.000Z Words are easy to say and lie's can be told, but actions are the thing that prove if someone loves you, in the case of a husband and wife, being true to only them. \~ Lorraine Monshing Love is subjective. Sometimes people are hurt and act from that rather than their hearts. It doesn't mean they don't love you. Love is feeling the connection even when the actions aren't there. Don't throw away true love just because you don't fully understand how it works. \~ Colin McShane By the way someone is acting toward others, you can quickly notice if they love you from the inside of their heart or outside of their heart because some are faking love to hate with a smile and deep inside that's not the way it really is. \~ Gisele Joseph That's what we suppose to do, if we have family ( parents ,brother & sister or spouse ,Kids ) we should show our respect & love so that we still can bind together as one big family and I have that kind of love since my life & I'm sure God is the center of that love I mention to you. \~ Rebecca Byrd ### If you find someone who watches out for you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-find-someone-who-watches-out-for-you/ Last updated: 2023-10-06T02:30:40.000Z Sometimes no matter how hard you try to be your best, nobody seem to feel it anymore. You need no effort to keep them close because they are basically loving and good , they will always be with you. You only need to love in return, value their sentiments, be sincere and honest to them. \~ Surinder Sandhu Sometimes they are right in front of you and you don't see until its too late. Always remember to look and love them the way they love you or it could be too late and let them know how much they mean it you also. There's a girl that I really like and she's about my age but the thing is she's taken and I can't do anything about it, but I'm glad because we became friends and I'm happy enough because I see her everyday. \~ Manny Remo Unfortunately, people don't take notice of them until they stop doing the things they used to do because they've taken them for granted. ### When people treat you like they don't care URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-people-treat-you-like-they-dont-care/ Last updated: 2023-10-04T02:30:03.000Z People who don't bother or even care for you, just wave them goodbye and move on with it. \~ Saskia Brecks Once you accept it, change your perception of the situation, adapt your thinking, life then opens up many new variables to you, then all you need to do is choose the ones you like and you can make work for you, discarding the others on the way. It's very liberating and you find that you don't really mind what you may have lost (or never really had) because there is so much more to be had and look forward to. If you can't change your circumstances, change your mind. \~ Penel James If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, well it's a duck. No if's and but's about it. Don't waste precious time with people who obviously don't care or love you, life is shorter than you think, give your love and attention to those who clearly do too, the rest ignore and close that chapter. \~ Ana Luisa Actions speak louder than words. It's hard to want to accept the truth when you love the person but it comes to a point when you can only take so much and eventually you will open up your eyes and know you deserve so much more. \~ Maria Gomez ### Love is when you sit beside someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-when-you-sit-beside-someone/ Last updated: 2023-10-02T02:30:23.000Z After 33 years of marriage, the quite times are often, simply because you know everything about each other and nothing is new. It is great though just sitting with your other. \~ Randy Smith I've been with my husband all these years, even if we don't say a word to each other, but when one of us reach out our hand we're there for each other. \~ Maureen Lepre ### What True Beauty depends on? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/what-true-beauty-depends-on/ Last updated: 2023-09-30T02:30:26.000Z Don't you want people to like you for you, because you're a nice person? Your kind heart? Not because of what you look like or how much money you have. What's inside your heart that truly makes you rich and beautiful. \~ Brigitte Nicole Beauty comes from within and not from the outside and most importantly, with God in your heart makes you beautiful inside and out. Inner beauty creates outer beauty and there is a natural outer glow about a person. There is a reason for the glow around the heads of saints, martyrs and angels painted in portraits. Happiness/beauty is found within the heart. \~ Stuart Hall I would much rather be with someone who has a good heart, over someone who has money and good looks. Those things mean Zero in life. If you get all 3, Bonus. But Look for someone who is kind, loving, good hearted. Money and Looks, who cares. That's for shallow people. \~ Brigitte Nicole ### No matter how hard things were URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-hard-things-were/ Last updated: 2023-09-28T02:30:26.000Z Never go to bed angry. There's a rainbow always after the rain. **If the Lord gives you a better day, praise him, remember, every day he let's us open our eyes is a good day.** **I've done it many times and you know what, not only the next morning but my night was also nice and peaceful. I did sleep like a baby with no anxiety whatsoever. Wouldn't matter about what, any positive thought. \~ Alec DeWog** ### Sometimes your Heart needs more time URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-your-heart-needs-more-time/ Last updated: 2023-09-26T02:30:52.000Z It takes a long time for the heart to catch up. \~ Bianca Ferrer Sometimes the heart won't ever accept what the mind knows. The trick is for the heart to teach the mind how to live with it. \~ Melanie Craven Our minds create our reality. Our thoughts determine how we experience the world around us. Even emotion is tied to a memory. This is why things experienced for the first time is so euphoric, then it dissipates and becomes a memory. Taste, smell, touch, hearing, we all learned by association and give things names/ labels. i.e lemon is sour. Sky is blue. How do we really know? A lemon could be sweet. The ocean and sky green and the grass blue. Point being our mind is a "Grand Illusion." Thus, so is this thing we call reality. "The mind knows, what the eyes see." and the heart simply "knows.". Intuition, Love, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity and best of all "living in the moment." The heart is pure and this is the place we were meant to live from. Children do it all of the time, then the world teaches them to live from the mind, they grow up and become labeling, pigeon holing fools like the rest of us. In your heart you know, it is just your illusory mind that refuses to give in. \~ Ujamaa Ntlabati ### Never change your originality for the sake of others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-change-your-originality-for-the-sake-of-others/ Last updated: 2023-09-24T02:30:58.000Z Change is good but not when you're doing it for somebody else the only good for you and much needed but always be the person you are. \~ Rick Armstrong We all play a role in life because we all are here for a purpose and everybody is what life and destiny has chosen them to be. \~ Osvald Lugo We all "play a role" in life and in this world. It doesn't mean that we are being phony and fake. We each have a place and a destiny of our own. We have a purpose, whether we know it or not, but we are also more than a function. We have our "job in life" (not necessarily the one we get paid for) but we also have the beauty and joy of simply being who we are. \~ Ellen Ross ### Who are your Real friends? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/who-are-your-real-friends/ Last updated: 2023-09-22T02:30:33.000Z Once in life you should get a setback to know who your real friends are. It sometimes takes a while to realize who you can and can't trust. You always find out who your true friends are when things are difficult for you. The true one's help you through it, the fake one's are no where to be found, yet are the first to ask your help when they are going through tough times. \~ Sue Militariu You can always tell who your real friends are. The ones that talk to you when you're in a good mood and bad mood and that ask how you are too and care about your life. The ones that are all about them and only want to be around when you're happy are the ones that aren't your true friends in my opinion. \~ Toni Mitchell Only a few that are real true friends of mine, now I know who are the FAKE ones. \~ Michelle Riley ### The Greatest Gift you can give someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-greatest-gift-you-can-give-someone/ Last updated: 2023-09-20T02:30:25.000Z Love and time is very vital part in our life. If you love someone than you have to have spend some time with your partner. We live in a very busy world and no one has the time, or so they think, but if we all just gave a minute of our time to people what a way of saying I care or I love you . It doesn't have to be quantity but quality time, but there are many givers and in return there are many takers and they don't know how to give (and that is very exhausting and frustrating). As I was told many years ago ask a busy person to do something and it will get done. Sometimes we need to tell people that we need to their time. \~ Lou Briggs Only give that to someone who is worthy and who will return those feelings. Don't ever waste time on giving your heart and soul to someone who will just never be there emotionally for you. \~ Krissy Haubs Our time is really the only thing we can give another person because it really is the only thing we really have to give, a piece of ourselves through our time. \~ Natalie Drummond Emotionally scarred need someone who they can trust. They need love, laughter and time without judgment. Your ears, heart and mind have to be open at all times and you should not take it personal. If people would take time to listen and find healthy positive solutions rather than judge you would see a difference in those battling emotional scars. \~ Jennifer McCullough Sometimes giving too much time and attention to someone, they find it suffocating and not appreciated. It hurts when your giving everything to that person, but that person does not respect you and never justify your feelings and leave you alone. ### Need Therapy? Talk to your Best Friend URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/need-therapy-talk-to-your-best-friend/ Last updated: 2023-09-18T02:30:25.000Z It's so much easier talking to your best friend then a therapist and you don't have to pay them. \~ Barbara Baldridge Talking to people is all the therapy we need, interaction with people so important to make people feel good. \~ Mary Conlon I love and need all my friends in my life, they seem to step in at all the right times. Angels on Earth is what they are, each one have been God sent. \~ Debbie Gupton God! He is THE friend, the only One Who is needed for all things. ### Saying I Love You is no big deal URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/saying-i-love-you-is-no-big-deal/ Last updated: 2023-09-16T02:30:22.000Z Some people may find it difficult to accept love. You just can't tell someone that you love them, you have to show them in your actions. Love is not based on performance,and just because you love someone,it does not mean your supposed to be together. Love given freely and unconditionally is the greatest gift from one human heart to another. It is the common invisible bond that links and binds two souls together through eternity. Those 3 little oft spoken words barely scrape the surface of the heartfelt emotion involved in the giving and expressing of one's love. \~ Margaret Young Say it when you mean it. You will know the time and place. Just those 3 words expressed to someone that never hears it can change the moment. \~ Joy Richards ### Don't worry about stupid things URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-worry-about-stupid-things/ Last updated: 2023-09-14T02:30:34.000Z Never let anyone to bring you down, even the closest people or people you are in love with. Life is too short to ignore someone who always feel happy with a single response of yours and specially when you trying to avoid him/her just for no reasons. Let him learn with time. Let him get include in your happiness. Let him take time to understand things which he never ever thought of. Falling in love does not hurt if you pick the right partner. Trust is the most important ingredient then respect. The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day. Enjoy your loved ones and friends now, leave the drama and worries behind, life is shorter than you think. ### It's less important to have lots of friends URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/its-less-important-to-have-lots-of-friends/ Last updated: 2023-09-12T02:30:23.000Z Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. True friends are more valuable than all the wealth in the world. You can sometimes go for weeks, months and occasionally years and not see them but the conversation starts where the last ended. You love your friends like family. \~ Linda Flanders The only real friend in this big world is our own selves; so if we are true/real with our selves then every other person we meet will be true/real with us. God has a way of orchestrating our lives in order to meet our needs at any given time. Friendship is all about these kinds of connections. To place any sort of computable /comprehensive value on them, may serve only to detract from His will and leaving us feeling unworthy and abandoned. "True friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." Not if you give yourself and your life to God. He will never leave or forsake you. He will be your own 'best friend' and provide many opportunities to commune with other friends along the way. \~ Carol Priestley In a lifetime a person have only one or two friends (real friends), the others are just people. Everything change with time even the true friends, it's human nature. ### The people whom we have known only a short amount of time URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-people-whom-we-have-known-only-a-short-amount-of-time/ Last updated: 2023-09-10T02:30:32.000Z You can have a short encounter with someone and remember them for the rest of your life with a beautiful memory or it can be quite the opposite. The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them. \~ Maya Angelou wrote It's not the amount of time you have with someone, it's how you spend the time you have. \~ Sissy Bowen Sometimes it's because those whom you have known for a long time prayed for them to come into your life with the right message at the time your heart is ready to hear it. \~ Rita Clark They are in your life for a reason, not a season or a lifetime, just a reason. Sometimes those that have known us the longest have a difficult time letting go of who we once were. Even harder time accepting who we have grown to be. Time and distance help with that, at times. \~ Sharon Guzman ### When people stare at you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-people-stare-at-you/ Last updated: 2023-09-08T02:30:38.000Z I have people who come into work on the next shift who like to keep looking at me and staring. Just trying to come up with an explanation for it. \~ Cindy Gavin ### True Love has no expiration date URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/true-love-has-no-expiration-date/ Last updated: 2023-09-06T02:30:33.000Z Love is a feeling (emotions). So passing the time, the attachment between two person is going weak, but still love is forever. No matter how old you or your relation. How can love expire? If it were really love, it will never expire. It will always be there no matter what. There is something to be said for the phrase “use it or lose it”. The longer we are with a person the harder it is to keep our passion alive and it does become more work because we can take a person for granted. \~ Marcos Briones True love is forever, always, and eternity by growing old together with a strong relationship. An everlasting love that's truly mean to be. Just because their partners aren't with them, does not mean the love has expired. Love never dies. Sleeping in your lovers arms is the best feeling in this whole world. Love is always full time, never part time, never sometimes, and certainly not just on your time. To love is to dance through life with a partner who can follow as good as they can lead. This is why they are your partner. ### We met people for a reason URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/we-met-people-for-a-reason/ Last updated: 2023-09-04T02:30:17.000Z Even the ones that are blessings have lessons and the ones that are lessons should be seen as blessings. \~ Kris McRaney At least it was a quick lesson. At least it was not a year down the road a big waste of time. Just keep on moving forward. There is something better out there, looking for you. \~ Jan Schloemer Some lessons can be horribly painful and hard to see as blessings, but in the end we can use that lesson to teach someone of our experience that would be the positive side of it. Be a beacon. Take our pain and use it to help others. \~ Brigitte Nicole Use the pain of the "negative" relationship to help ourselves as well as help others, thus gain wisdom. Ultimately a blessing, but it takes some reframing to get there. \~ Linda Radtke A lesson don't allow yourself to go through a lesson again, the lesson don't change unless you teach yourself. \~ Deborah Watkins Everyone appear in your life, always have a reason and when the time passed over when you found the answer yourself. \~ Đặng Minh Dũng ### Why people tried to bring you down? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/why-people-tried-to-bring-you-down/ Last updated: 2023-09-02T02:30:10.000Z People are always going to try to bring you down but you have to smile, stay positive, and keep moving on with your life like it doesn't bother you any more. Not thinking about the people who hurt you makes you the bigger, stronger, and wiser person. Thanks to you haters I wouldn't be here today. \~ Erica Tucker You have to remember that you always matter never let life or people or circumstances get you defeated. Keep a prayer in your heart. God will always be there to help you. \~ Mary Hansen ### If it's meant to be, it will happen URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-its-meant-to-be-it-will-happen/ Last updated: 2023-08-30T02:30:18.000Z Expectation is the mother of all disappointments. Never expect, just live and go with flow. You have to create your life, establish yourself, believe and welcome a life that comes to you as you deserve and earn it. Forgive yourself and hope others may when you make mistakes, that is also part of a journey, learning and doing better, and moving forward for who you may be and be with. A full bodied life. If you are blessed and prepared, welcoming, alert to making the timing be good, you may embrace it all. Create it, and invite a life you wish. Don't expect a miracle, make one! \~ Jane Tucker If you really believe in God and understand he is omnipotent, omnipresent and knows what you need and what is to be provided to you for the purpose he has sent you on this earth, your expectations, assumptions, questions an demands are irrelevant. You simply have faith in him for he is doing everything for you. Keep on performing your duties honestly and do not distrust and start questioning and demanding that is interfering into his regime. \~ Surinder Sandhu ### Sometimes in the middle of my little mess URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-in-the-middle-of-my-little-mess/ Last updated: 2023-08-28T02:30:16.000Z Just look around there is always someone who would love to have what you have. If you have a place to call home, food on the table, a job and you and the family are ok, plus clothes on your back, car to drive, then for today you are fine. \~ Mary Riegel We always look to the things that we don't have and feel that our happiness is when we get the things we don't have and we forget the many blesses and things that we have. Sometimes we get so depressed at the things we cannot do we forget there are things that we can do. I'm truly blessed to have the love around me that I have. This is something I can never forget. \~ Carol Lindeman Some days I admit, I have to remind myself why I should get out of bed, but then flashes of my girls and my grandchildren, and my Mom and My sister go through my mind and I count each and every blessing I know I still have. I am here for a purpose. \~ Patti Ferris I am so blessed to have people who love me & care about me. Blessed to have my family, they are awesome. Blessed to have a man that loves me & takes care of me when I need it. Love you all! \~ Terry Bruce ### When you feel in your Heart & Soul that something is wrong URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-feel-in-your-heart-soul-that-something-is-wrong/ Last updated: 2023-08-26T02:30:23.000Z Always trust that gut feeling it will never lead you the wrong way. If you suddenly are overwhelmed with a feeling that something is right that you need to follow those instincts put in your heart by God and do whatever it is that you feel you must do to help another person in need. \~ Terry Kunick Sometimes we know that something is wrong but we can't let it go and we try to convince ourselves that it's going to get better but sadly it doesn't. \~ Noor Elhouda ### People can say that they care URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-can-say-that-they-care/ Last updated: 2023-08-24T02:30:14.000Z What people do is so much more revealing than what they say. Love is a verb (John Mayer,) and a verb is an action word. Words without actions are meaningless; actions make words unnecessary. Those that love me unconditionally there is nothing to prove. For they already naturally humbly show me in all there actions, deeds and words spoken. Gratitude in the smallest things. \~ Stuart Hall Sometimes it's in our most toughest trials that we see the people who truly stick to us an help us through. It's easy to say you'll always be there and vow to be loyal but it's a whole other things when you stick around when life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. I am so thankful for the lessons that taught me to see the true people from the false. \~ Unknown ### People who love you for who you are URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-love-you-for-who-you-are/ Last updated: 2023-08-22T02:30:42.000Z There are two different kinds of people in this world: Givers and takers. The takers may eat better but the givers sleep better. \~ Marlo Thomas Even your own blood relatives are like leeches who never stop sucking until the very last drop of you blood. They only try to communicate when they needed money, money and money to withdraw and withdraw. They treat you as a bank not as a person anymore like an ATM. \~ May Tagayun I met a friend so called friend. Let them in my home, feed them, reach out to them emotionally, spiritually, as well as their kids. They turn around & stabbed me in my back. I believe in giving from the heart & never change our good nature, but people take advantage of me. God will see through all wrong doers & deal with them with time. I'm more cautious now, but I'm still a caring person. It's very difficult to trust people right now. \~ Julie Armstrong ### The only people who are mad at you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-only-people-who-are-mad-at-you/ Last updated: 2023-08-20T02:30:40.000Z Lie gives temporary happiness but the truth gives permanent relaxation from the problem. \~ Anitha Totakura Truth is unequivocal reality that lies from the dismantling of lie. There is no such thing as absolute lie, but there is indeed an absolute truth. Never let ignorant people talked you down. They just refuse to listen to the facts because they are afraid of hearing the truth, as that leads to changes. Need to be innovated, move forward, not regress to the past, the dark ages. When you see someone living a lie that is hurting them and you try and tell them the truth about what they need to hear for there own good and it back fires and they get angry with you and causes a fight. It makes you question whether being honest is all worth it. Lot of people just want to hear what they want to hear. If someone is not ready for the truth they will not appreciate it. \~ Maxine Pepper Everyone believes truth is the way they see things. However, the folks who get mad at someone else for speaking their version of truth are those who don't have full confidence in theirs. \~ Deepa Bhat ### Commitment means staying loyal to what you said URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/commitment-means-staying-loyal-to-what-you-said/ Last updated: 2023-08-18T02:30:20.000Z Commitment shows you can be trusted and depended on. The commitment you have solemnly promised at your wedding ceremony. Never been had one but when i gave birth to my child the commitment I made was the first time of everything. \~ Jessyline Maquito You're committed to what you agreed with, with the partner you agreed with. When that partner changes into someone who doesn't resemble who you made that commitment with, you're under no obligation whatsoever to carry on. In fact, the other person has broken the commitment and probably lied as to who they really were to begin with. \~ Charlotte Barty I believe always standing by what I say. If I give my word then I have to keep it. You must never go back on your promise ever. \~ Asoka Munaweera ### Walk away from the nonsense around you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/walk-away-from-the-nonsense-around-you/ Last updated: 2023-08-16T02:30:23.000Z Not walk, run in a full sprint, like there's a tiger behind you. Be wise enough to surround yourself with like minded and wise people so that their wisdom may emanate on you so you could be blessed and bless in return. ### No matter how much it hurts URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/no-matter-how-much-it-hurts/ Last updated: 2023-08-14T02:30:09.000Z Keep going & always believe there is always a light at the end of tunnel. When you have love in your heart your head will be always up and wherever you go you will be happy. ### If you don't leave all the anger, hatred & bitterness behind URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-dont-leave-all-the-anger-hatred-bitterness-behind/ Last updated: 2023-08-12T02:30:55.000Z Don't hold hate, bitterness, unforgiveness or resentment. Life is too short and you may be missing so much more. **Buddha said “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”** Anger and bitterness keep us imprisoned whether we walk through that door or not. True freedom comes from letting go and having forgiveness, both for ourselves and others. \~ Elaine Boucher Lots of people are in their own prison. I want to walk out that door. My new life and my freedom are waiting for me. \~ Ildikó Kenessey God is always their, even when we think he's not, he knows your pain you can always count on the lord, give thanks to him for giving you so many years with her. \~ Jennifer Jones ### You can't hang out with negative people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cant-hang-out-with-negative-people/ Last updated: 2023-08-10T02:30:15.000Z It's like a spiders web, Once you fall into it it's hard to get out. But with perseverance you will get out in your life will change for the better. \~ Wayne Fritz You cannot change a negative person into a positive person, but you can always set a positive example for others to learn from. You can make them feel less negative by being kind to them. He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm, Let go of the friends who are no longer uplifting you. Spend time with people who inspire you to be better. \~ Proverbs 13:20 Surround your self with positive people positive things happen. Surround yourself with negative only negative things will happen. Negative people tend to pull down happy positive people. I've been through a pretty bad depression and am glad some positive people stuck by my side and now I'm pretty positive and will not abandon someone in need. I do have to limit my time with them or it will drag me down. \~ Richard Faber ### Some people can be mean & treat you poorly URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-can-be-mean-treat-you-poorly/ Last updated: 2023-08-08T02:30:39.000Z Just be the loving person you can be, there will always be unhappy people. Show yourself to be better than they are. Walking away from "ignorance" shows you to be the stronger one. If they speak negatively about you walking away, just continue to ignore. They will remember you. \~ Renata Riley Mean people have issues but won't admit to it. They constantly find faults. Picky just anything they're so damn hateful they don't even like themselves. \~ Sonja A Myers There is no doubt that the actions of others can be hurtful, often without any reason or logic that you can see. But there is one thing that nobody can take away from you, your reaction to the situations and circumstances of your life. That's where your true strength lies, in the ability to choose the way you respond to the events and circumstances of your life. Taking ownership of your life means understanding that you do actually have choice, and to use it. \~ Blair Robinson I don't worry about mean people. They are fighting some unknown battle. It is not about the victim. \~ Cheryl Machak ### The last person you think of at night URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-last-person-you-think-of-at-night/ Last updated: 2023-08-06T02:30:44.000Z It's a joy and how wonderful it is to know that you're in someone's heart and thought. The Lord is the last one I think of before I go to sleep. \~ Shirley Williams ### What is the best Relationship? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/what-is-the-best-relationship/ Last updated: 2023-08-04T02:30:39.000Z Best friends make for the best, lasting relationships. Most long lasting relationships are like this, having respect for one another and never say anything bad about the other person in public, putting someone down in front of others just makes yourself look bad. \~ Kandi Lippert Bob & I are in our 43rd year of marriage & I can't imagine not having him by my side. Love him & enjoying our retirement years together. I love him more now than I did on our wedding day in 1971\. \~ Donna Hughes My parents will be having their 66th anniversary this year. They will tell you the very same thing. Recipe for success. \~ Patti Codd ### Never be fooled by what you see on the outside URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-be-fooled-by-what-you-see-on-the-outside/ Last updated: 2023-08-02T02:30:48.000Z The outside is what don't matter, its what is on the inside that does. \~ Kathren Allor Not everyone is that wise to see on the inside, people always believes what they see. Beauty is skin deep. That's why it is pleasing to hear when somebody tells you, " To know you is to love you." We need to stop looking at people for what they look like & maybe get to know people for who they are. \~ Alicia Thompson In all aspects of life and especially critical of the closest to us when we discover the hard truth. A shell could have inside a beautiful and precious pearl or just empty. \~ Mazen Bader People have always judged me by my appearance on the outside but if they spent the time to get to know me, I was a totally different person. \~ Thomas Rubenstein Nothing in the outside world has any real value what so ever, matter of fact anything that can be bought has no value. Your "INSIDE" is a treasure with infinite value if you only knew? \~ Moe Pezeshk Not to look the outside but what is inside, God look's whats in your heart. \~ Samuel 16:7 ### Love is about appreciation URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-about-appreciation/ Last updated: 2023-07-30T02:30:39.000Z **I have a 3 way approach to the love of flowers. 1) Don't pick it-just admire & love it's beauty. 2) Take a picture of it to cherish it's beauty. 3) Out of love, pick it to give to someone, so that they have it close as a symbol of your love.** **\~ Hank Borne** Love is like holding sand in your hand. If you hold it too tight, it will runs amongst your finger, just hold them normally, and you'll have them forever. Love is an ever budding emotion to be cherished with all the care and attention like a young sapling about to flower to full maturity and lovingly appreciated. Being in possession of a plucked flower before it is given the chance to blossom and bloom to all its glory is similarly akin to love being excessively possessive in a relationship thereby stifling all hopes of it ever flourishing to its full capacity. Love is not in the possessing and the acquiring. It is in the appreciating and the cherishing. \~ Margaret Young Love is selfless. It's all about giving in a relationship! ### Don't judge someone else's situation URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-judge-someone-elses-situation/ Last updated: 2023-07-28T02:30:59.000Z Every individual is different. People respond to situations differently. Therefore, two people going through the same situation may not handle it the same. It's based on each individual's personality, mentality and emotional stability. \~ Millette Smart Taking the wisdom from of someone's experience doesn't require you to judge them. Judging in this quote means to give critical to express a bad opinion of someone's behavior or choices they have made, thinking you would of done better or different. One never knows because your struggle, your journey, your situation will be completely different because of many factors. Life is different for everyone. \~ Brigitte Nicole We react differently on the same situation based on so many factors like our personality, ability to cope emotionally, physically and psychologically, social status, etc. \~ Lynes Sarmie ### Accept! They aren't that person anymore URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/accept-they-arent-that-person-anymore/ Last updated: 2023-07-26T02:30:57.000Z People change and sometimes not for the better. Sometimes you have to let go of believing the past could be any different. People are who they are & sometimes you just have to let them go. You can love them from a distance but you don't have to allow anyone to be in your presence & continue to lie & cut you down. Hand them back their issues & just walk away for your own peace of mind & your own happiness. You deserve it! \~ Cheryl Will People's perspective changes as life's experiences can make or break their spirit. It is not your fault. It is their side of the net. Keep living and have a good attitude. Honor yourself and be strong. When someone has nothing to give, it is sad but they have to live with themselves and you don't. \~ Suzanne Mead Sometimes people manipulate you into something they never really were. Look into a mirror, are you happy with what you see? If not, change it because you are not going to change anyone else. Ones true colors always come out in the end. \~ Joe Vallon That moment of peace, when we can finally accept what is, truly, when something, someone, some place, some situation, that once meant so much, no longer does, when we can be with it as it is, not as we imagine, not as it may once have been, or we may once have been, no longer angry or frustrated that it is not what we believed, not trying to make it so, not clinging on nor pushing it nor running away, wearing neither rose coloured glasses nor blinders, to have the intense highs and lows soften, not into a blandness nor deadness, but into a peace, a true letting go, a freedom and liberation, one that cannot be forced, but emerges. Alice Murnighan ### Love is an unconditional commitment URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-an-unconditional-commitment/ Last updated: 2023-07-24T02:30:27.000Z True feelings of love only comes when two person fall in love with a great respect and by attachment of their souls. \~ Trishna Sorle Love is not a feeling like the "world" promotes but a commitment. The feeling changes back and forth with events of life but the commitment stays. \~ Nancy James Loving someone by your choice is like putting a tie of faithfulness in your neck, meaning no matter what happen it is the love that you have for him will binds you. The heart will speak to his soul and his soul will speak to your heart. \~ Junjun Biagcong Love is a beautiful thing and I am glad that I have the opportunity to have someone like that in my life that wants to be there like that for me. Like a fool I have been avoiding it because I was in love with someone who didn't love me and I refused to see it. I held on because I was taught when you truly love someone you don't give up on them no matter what, but it will only work if real love exists on both sides. \~ Hailou Merrick At 46 I have found this and I am so lucky. I truly know now what it is like to love and be loved to be vulnerable and safe, to laugh and love there is not enough money in the world that could change this feelings. \~ Sheryl Ferguson ### People who do so little for you try to control your feelings URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/people-who-do-so-little-for-you-try-to-control-your-feelings/ Last updated: 2023-07-22T02:30:06.000Z Don't let people live rent free in your head folks. You are the only one in charge of your life. Just be careful and think before you act. We shouldn't let other people and their opinions and criticism try to influence us and to keep us from achieving our own dreams. Think what like you, do what you like to do, believe what you like, do whatever you want to do with your life and do what you can to achieve your own dreams and future goals for your own path and destiny. \~ Ollie Knox ### Spend your time on those that love you unconditionally URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/spend-your-time-on-those-that-love-you-unconditionally/ Last updated: 2023-07-20T02:30:31.000Z In this life, if you're lucky to find one person who will take you as you are and love you with all his heart. You should grab hold and never let go. \~ Fred Prior When they do not "need" you and/or there is nothing that you have that they cannot obtain without your assistance, will they still treat you with respect, consideration, empathy? Or will they show their true colors? The true measure of a man's character can be determined by how much they do for another that can do nothing for them in return. See? This is where you can separate the "givers" from the "takers," regardless of how large or small their personal fortune may be. \~ Brick Mudge I never tell someone that I love them based on circumstances. Love comes from the heart and should be handed out with care. There are very few people in my life that I actually "love" but I have many, many, wonderful friends that I would do anything for. \~ Nonni Norman ### A Happy Life is about giving more than you take URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-happy-life-is-about-giving-more-than-you-take/ Last updated: 2023-07-18T02:30:34.000Z Life is about giving and taking. We breathe in, we breathe out. Doing one without the other, we die. I have been criticize or rather called from time to time nuts, crazy. Been told what you have too much time on your hands. When I have in fact stopped to do for others and care for others and after awhile you find yourself almost apologizing, defending and even defining what it is your intentions are. At the end of the day, I can put my head on the pillow and thank God for helping me to help others and the end of their day all they have is their negativity. I'd rather give and live than to be a naysayer. \~ Sonia Diaz ### Know your Friends Circle URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/know-your-friends-circle/ Last updated: 2023-07-16T02:30:46.000Z Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Those 'drillers' when my back was turned have already been identified and booted out of my boat a long time ago, been vigilant of new drillers ever since. \~ Gayle Tristan Sometimes I prefer to be alone than to have and be with a circle of friends whose drilling you down instead of lifting you up. You trusted and believed in them and at the end you just realized that trusting your self first is the better choice ever. \~ Cherry Gutierrez ### Friendship isn't about who you have known the longest URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/friendship-isnt-about-who-you-have-known-the-longest/ Last updated: 2023-07-14T02:30:18.000Z Only a few of these true friends come along in a life time. Treasure them while you have them. Not a love relationship just certain people to stand by you and walk with you when you need a helping hand. \~ Pam Doering A wonderful thing that can happen in life is when that friend has been in your life since forever that's when you are truly blessed. ### If you Expect the world to be Fair with you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-expect-the-world-to-be-fair-with-you/ Last updated: 2023-07-12T02:30:17.000Z We still live in this world of good and bad. Not everyone will treat you the way you want them to treat you. No matter how good you treat them and no matter how much you care, some people won't care back. Not everyone one is going to appreciate your kindness. You just have to find those who are worth your kindness. \~ Jay Janice In all essence it doesn't mean you have to compromise your ethics or moral grounds because of people. It just means that simply because you are good doesn't mean everyone else is. You might do good but find that you do not get good at the end. \~ Dominica Dhlamini I was bashed by people I helped and showed love to, I thought they would respect me because I did good for them putting food in there mouths and some where to rest there head but no as soon as they had a bad day they too it out on me. \~ Wayne John ### One small crack doesn't mean that you are broken URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/one-small-crack-doesnt-mean-that-you-are-broken/ Last updated: 2023-07-10T02:30:32.000Z Every now and then we all are put to test, sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don't, but the thing is to hold yourself together, don't fall apart and be ready for the next time. This is the will to success. \~ Shaikh Ahmad ### Find people who are your kind of crazy URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/find-people-who-are-your-kind-of-crazy/ Last updated: 2023-07-08T02:30:16.000Z You come from crazy, at last you know it. A little "crazy" helps all of us take ourselves less seriously. Humor is the divine antidote for exaltation of ego. \~ Zenobia Davis ### Pain changes people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/pain-changes-people/ Last updated: 2023-07-06T02:30:22.000Z Pain can make you down right grouchy even if you don't want it that way. There is physical and mental pain, they both can change people. It can take an upbeat, positive, outgoing sunny disposition and turn it into a sober, anxious, depressed, doubt-riddled, person with a grim outlook on life. It's depressing, and if your not aware of what's happening to you because of the pain, then you may not recognize that reflection in the mirror. Your friends won't either. \~ Cathy Sors Pain humbles people too, but it is up to us as to whether it changes us for the better or for the worse. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. Behind every sorrow, there is always sorrow. No pain, no gain is so very apart. "To render ourselves insensible to pain, we must also forfeit the possibility of happiness." One hasn't lived without having experienced and endured pain in all its many shapes and forms. Life is never without its fair share of pain. We just learn to accept it as our fair due and live with it in pretty much the same way that we enjoy the simple pleasures of life. One balances the other. Life's a happy medium. The extremes doesn't bear thinking of a happy balance is what life offers. You just take the good with the bad as is the case with everything else in life. Grin and bear it is what life's all about. \~ Margaret Young Pain shows us a different perspective. The deeper your cut the deeper down the rabbit hole you can go. That gained perspective damages but it also creates a newer empathy for other people than we were capable of having before which is enlightening and sometimes life changing. \~ Dan Brown Pain does change a person more than you could ever imagine. When you have chronic pain it is hard to find the positives in life but you have too to be able to continue one. \~ Julie Bloodworth ### Relationships are like birds URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/relationships-are-like-birds/ Last updated: 2023-07-04T02:30:50.000Z If you love something set it free. It will spread its wings and grow. If it comes back to you it loves you truly. When one holds too tight & the other not tight enough the tension can break the bond. Only the birdie that wants to sit in your hand will stay, without squeezing and tight holding, it'll stay there even if you open up your hand. \~ Anya Warda Relationship should always be handle with care, keep in mind that its always fragile. Never take advantage, nor for granted. Keep in mind that's it is new & will always stay fresh & steady so it will last forever. Gigi Guzman Many forget they must love themselves before than can love another. Sadly many think they must have someone in their lives to be loved when in fact all they need is to love themselves. \~ Kris Colford People mutually decide how close they are by how much they respect each other's individual lives & make the time they share important to each other. \~ Michelle Howard ### A sincere apology has three parts URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-sincere-apology-has-three-parts/ Last updated: 2023-07-02T02:30:31.000Z A sincere apology must have some purposes: to acknowledge having committed faults, a promise from within not repeat and to be able to gain excuses or forgiveness. \~ Josephine Lecias Sometimes, even if we are not at fault, we need to apologize so as not to break a good relationship. \~ Patrick Daep As we get older we can admit that we are wrong and it really feels good to be able to do that whenever you know in your heart that you have done something wrong. \~ Cindy Brodie ### When you have to stop crossing oceans for people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-have-to-stop-crossing-oceans-for-people/ Last updated: 2023-06-30T02:30:35.000Z No one deserves to be mistreated, sometimes "helping" people needs to be redefined..There'll come a time, you will see this if you keep giving and never having your vessel replenished, it's the casting your pearls before swine scenario. Healthy relationships are the best example we can give our children and others. No relationship should be a one way street. \~ Diane Massey I will always help people who need my help and not expect anything in return. But we should beware of people who use us and we do big things for them always when they ask not because they are drowning but because we care and then when we need something or fall back they turn their back to us and wouldn't help. \~ Perla Yehuda There comes a time where we have to say, "No I will not help you." They are takers, users, abusers & back stabbers. Love me for who I am, not what I will give you. \~ Annie Fundora ### You can't always be nice URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-cant-always-be-nice/ Last updated: 2023-06-28T02:30:55.000Z If someone is "taking advantage of you", sometimes we do have to be very firm when we have to tell them where we draw the line. When you are so nice and kind, people want more and more of what they can get from you without any kind of appreciation. You end up being used and wasted. There is being nice and there is being nice to yourself. Pick One! The one you feel like a victim the other you are in charge. Just do always what is right for you. \~ John Kobel A person who will not respect courtesy does not want to hear about boundaries. They will condemn and try to get you to "shut up" or "back down" before accepting that a respectful boundary is being set. Little and continuous put-downs are the reason I work for boundaries and graceful ways to leave a situation and then comes the firmness. \~ Theresa Evans You don't stop being nice, if you're a nice person. That's letting people change your entire character. It's enough to just set boundaries and know who's for you and who's not. It's not that hard. Trying be something you're not won't change the way you feel. Who you really are will always be revealed. Don't make yourself "miserable" trying to be someone you're not meant to be. \~ Debbie Williams ### When True Friends reveal? URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-true-friends-reveal/ Last updated: 2023-06-26T02:30:06.000Z It will also reveal friends, who are there for the gossip and drama. After hard times is when true friends reveal themselves. \~ Cassandra Rios The real friends make themselves known when you are going through rough times. It's kind of good because you weed out the bad ones. \~ Patricia Lozada Hard times will also reveal our true character. Do we rise to the challenge or fold under the pressure? \~ Jerry Welch ### Be careful about who you trust & tell your problems to URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/be-careful-about-who-you-trust-tell-your-problems-to/ Last updated: 2023-06-24T02:30:51.000Z Sometimes people are fake, be cool to your face but behind your back stab you in it. You have to be careful who you trust nowadays. \~ Terri Deaner If they gossip with you, they'll gossip about you. If it's all people do when they see you is make opinionated comments about others steer clear. When some people are asking you questions, it's so they can find a way to twist things and try and use it to their good. \~ Libby Andrews People who give of their problems to others and don't realize that that person may not be interested in their problems or even care about the other person. So it is best to be careful of who you tell of your troubles to. \~ Pauline Jackson A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ### Don't Love unless you trust first URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-love-unless-you-trust-first/ Last updated: 2023-06-22T02:30:22.000Z Don't love unless you can fulfill your commitment. **Don't judge what someone preaches because you think you know what life they've lived. People don't share all their secrets. Only God knows. \~ Jaime Harrington** ### You have got something better URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/you-have-got-something-better/ Last updated: 2023-06-20T02:30:57.000Z Sometimes we don't see the good things he gives us because we are so caught up with the bad things. Take a closer look, open your mind and heart. Give the good things a chance and then you will see he is there. \~ Nadia Lievens God has bigger and better plans than we could ever imagine for ourselves. That, however, does not mean the disappointments aren't difficult or not hurt. \~ Paula Lundquist ### Don't dwell on negative things & move on with your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-dwell-on-negative-things-move-on-with-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-06-18T02:30:52.000Z Life is too short to dwell on things that are not really worth your time. Enjoy life and live your life to the fullest. Before I use to be serious all the time to make sure people take me seriously. But now I know I can laugh when I feel like it. I don't stay on negative things I try to move on. \~ Diane Gaboriau I laugh because it makes my day better. \~ Lois Kier ### I want someone who says I love you every night URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/i-want-someone-who-says-i-love-you-every-night/ Last updated: 2023-06-16T02:30:33.000Z Love is a two way street. You cannot expect it from your spouse if you do not practice it yourself. \~ Virginia Dori It just makes the planet a better place to be. Thank God I'm married to one of those blessings. Now that he has retired there is a lot more fantastic sharing. \~ Maeve Murphy ### Someone who really loves you URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/someone-who-really-loves-you/ Last updated: 2023-06-14T02:30:21.000Z If someone really loves you, they never let you slip away no matter how hard the situation is. \~ Kiana Shmily If a person can walk out of your life, it's not genuine Love. It comes from the soul. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own. \~ Connie Voth ### End up with people that make you Feel all alone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/end-up-with-people-that-make-you-feel-all-alone/ Last updated: 2023-06-12T02:30:25.000Z It's better to be alone and happy then to be with someone and miserable. It takes two people to make a happy marriage, but only one to destroy it. When it involves your family, which should be the people least expected to make you feel alone. \~ Gerasimos Loukatos There are far more worse things. With the exception of my marriage I never felt lonely in any relationship. I felt lonely in my marriage because of the divorce. What did I do? I dusted myself off and picked myself up again and I am back to living a very happy life. \~ Oscar Perdomo I was single for 15 year before, I was married again and great alone time to reflect. With family and friends all was good. Had some bumps in the road but well worth the learning exp. My first marriage I was alone there was no connection. I am so happy I have found someone I can connect with and who is also my best friend. \~ Lana Bahumes I was in that kind of relationship for 6 year and one day I woke up and thought, what's the point in doing this when I'm not even happy, then I knew I had to end it. \~ Em Sunico ### Your arms were always open when I needed a hug URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/your-arms-were-always-open-when-i-needed-a-hug/ Last updated: 2023-06-10T02:30:55.000Z Even though you are not here mom, you are still in my heart and not a day goes by that I don't run across something that don't remind me of you mom. Especially your cooking I didn't forget about it, especially your words always cook enough, you never know who will come knocking at your door. \~ Andrea Jacobs ### A Heart that Forgives the worst URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/a-heart-that-forgives-the-worst/ Last updated: 2023-06-08T02:30:35.000Z I try to forget the bad by saying immediately 3 things that are good. It works for me because it shifts my negative thought to a positive thought & my energy level is uplifted. \~ Shelly Engelke If you forgive to the worst people around you, it will help your burdens go away from your heart because wither people do good or bad to you, it is the same you will remember them so why don't you let go of that anger in your heart so you will have peace of heart and mind. \~ Gomez Victoria Just like God forgives us for neglecting him at times we need to forgive others. God says it is not sacrifice to only love people and forgive people you know and want to do it, not mater what they have done. God says we are to love the unlovable and forgive them of their wrongs. That is Godly love, and the only way for this to happen is a deep personal relationship with God I am so thankful to have one with God. \~ Marty Guillory God is always the firm foundation and the first one to forgive. ### The Less you respond to Rude people URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/the-less-you-respond-to-rude-people/ Last updated: 2023-06-06T02:30:47.000Z The less you respond the more aggressive they become. If you don't argue back the argument is over. The more you are successful in not responding, or even emotionally reacting to the negative energy, the more centred and grounded you will feel. \~ Mary Volk It is a much happier life then to let someone come along who is full of hatred and let them destroy your life. The fighting just isn't worth it, but living life to the fullest is. \~ Kodie Moran Just ignore the people who constantly hurting you till the pain goes away with their memories. \~ Clarissa Yvonne It is their journey, their life, not yours. You can chose to be apart of it or not it is not always easy but the more aware one becomes of these situations and their reactions to them the easier it becomes. They are in your life for a reason, maybe to make you stronger, and realise your own inner strengths and weakness. We all have our own journeys and this is a part of mine and I learn a little about myself every time I am in a situation like that my inner self talk and affirmations are work for me. \~ Cheryle Uduste ### When you are falling apart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-you-are-falling-apart/ Last updated: 2023-06-04T02:30:34.000Z Give your troubles or pain over to God. He will help give you the strength when you need. How I would have survived without him in my life. \~ Sharron Thomas Never think your hopeless at everything because you have talent. When you feel your strength, you get stronger, that's when you use your talents. \~ Zarelle Ubas Thank you for always being here for me, especially when going through hard times. I also feel my guardian angels close by. \~ Marilyn Carol ### Even mistakes mean you are trying URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/even-mistakes-mean-you-are-trying/ Last updated: 2023-06-02T02:30:33.000Z Don't be hard on yourself. There is always someone out there that will pick you up when you have fallen and don't expect to be picked up in return. You are worth a lot and you deserve someone who will worship you and see the potential. You have the kind of a human being you are and that person that will motivate you in you dream to be a mother, someone has that same dream and will share it with you, and you will start a family soon enough, you will make a great mother and a good wife to someone out there, some one who you don't need to beg to be a partner to start a family with, don't give up, and whatever you do, never settle because when you settle, you are cheating yourself out of something great. \~ Adolfo Eisworth **Always be proud and confident of what you have accomplished and don't listen to criticism and remember nobody is perfect. Go to bed and know it wasn't a wasted you accomplished something. \~ Susan Watson** You cannot love yourself unless you see the reflection of The One in yourself. ### Don't be upset & caught up with things or people you cannot change URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-be-upset-caught-up-with-things-or-people-you-cannot-change/ Last updated: 2023-05-30T02:30:29.000Z Moving is right and make the things that will make you contented. God grant me the serenity to except the things I Cannot change The Courage to change the things I can, And the Wisdom to know the difference. ### If it's meant to be, it will be URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-its-meant-to-be-it-will-be/ Last updated: 2023-05-28T02:30:20.000Z This too shall pass. What's meant to happen will sure find it's way. That's the beauty of life. The beauty is in the strength we all have inside of us to make the impossible happen. The choice is yours. \~ Nilgun Volkan If it is for you , then you must first do what is humanly possible . Faith will open the door to the impossible. \~ Jessie Savilla The only thing that is meant to be is death. You choose what is meant to be by your perception of it. ### True love exists URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/true-love-exists/ Last updated: 2023-05-26T02:30:58.000Z "True" Love is hard work. Most of us give up soon after the "honeymoon" period during which we believe ourselves to be at one with the beloved. It is when we realise we are two separate individuals, that the hard work begins. Those who commit to do the work, are rewarded with the gift. \~ Regina Sebright We don't qualify as old because we are younger than we've ever been and married 40 years and we'd marry each other again tomorrow. \~ ThePam Keyser True love is worked at over a lifetime of forgiving the faults in each other, it's not there from the start. \~ Andrew Finley My wife Paulette & I have been married 37 years, and in a relationship for the combined time of 39 years. This does not seem possible. I met her in college, I was a Senior & she was a Freshman. We met when she was 18, and when we got married on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1976\. She was 20 & I was 23\. It seems like it was only yesterday when we got married. I guess time seems to fly by quickly when you are having fun. \~ John Leto I see couples of all ages going for walks in the evening, hand-in-hand, in all weathers. That shows me true love exists. \~ Rachael Johnson ### Beauty has nothing to do with looks URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/beauty-has-nothing-to-do-with-looks/ Last updated: 2023-05-24T02:30:13.000Z There are beautiful people, yet have the meanest personalities. \~ Liss Diz It's so easy to be looks beautiful outside, with the help of cosmetics, its only for those who can afford to buy good cosmetics but with those who can't afford water and soap is enough but being beautiful inside is more than enough. If people will love and accept you without make up, it's a good feeling indeed. You don't have to fake yourself because you are loved and accepted as who and what you are. \~ Anna Liza There are so many that have outward beauty, but are shallow inside. I say you cannot be truly beautiful unless you have compassion, love, and forgiveness inside. \~ Keela Hazel A beautiful person for me are those with good character/personality and when I say your beautiful, you must be having a good and kind heart. \~ Monixx Nayrz A person can be beautiful from the outside, but the heart is in the darkness shape as a rock, and only God knows what inside each and everyone's heart. \~ Gisele Joseph ### Once trust is broken, it is almost impossible to regain it URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/when-it-comes-to-relationships/ Last updated: 2023-05-22T02:30:27.000Z Once trust is broken, it is almost impossible to regain it. Two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. \~ Simonett Edward Love is everything. Being unfaithful and untrue only creates chaos and lead to break-ups and painful memories. So, when you are in a relationship, remain faithful to your partner. Once trust is broken, it's so hard to gain it back. Imagine yourself if your the one being played and fooled around, betrayed, cheated and treated so badly? For sure you don't want it to happen to you. If you love your partner, be good, stay faithful, and you can live happily ever after. \~ Monixx Nayrz Everybody has their ups and downs in life that don't mean you divorce them being faithful and loyal and trust is a must but not a option and if you have all of these then you will make a relationship work and mend what needs mending. I love my husband and have never been unfaithful to him never had the desire to now he's bad sick and I get closer to him cause never know god could take him at any point but I'll be there till the end standing by his side. \~ Melinda Presnell Loyalty to God, keeps you loyal to your spouse because you are willing to honor and keep your vows till death do you part. Unless you leave God, then your spouse. \~ Steve Aspen ### My life is not perfect, but my Life is good URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/my-life-is-not-perfect-but-my-life-is-good/ Last updated: 2023-05-20T02:30:07.000Z One should always be thankful to God for whatever he has given us. Live a life appreciating simple abundance and start and end the day in gratitude. The good Lord is faithful. Even in our darkest hour, he will bring us through. Hold on and find the strength within you. He gave you the ability to come through this. The character of a fighter, strong, woman of valour. Keep striving! \~ Lisa Leidig Use our heart of concern and help as many as possible if we can if not use our hand to help them dry from shelter. \~ Jeff Tandarra My belly is not full but for now I have my home still on shaky ground but I am alive and believe. Thank you God! \~ Helen Santillan ### If someone wants to be part of your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-someone-wants-to-be-part-of-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-05-18T02:30:22.000Z It takes effort to make anything work in any relationship whether that be a friendship or an actual love relationship. To reserve a space for someone who doesn't care is a waste of time and effort. \~ Emily Reedy Not to spend all your efforts chasing people and focusing on getting them to be there. I have lived by this for a while and it's true. You can better love some people when you are not so focused on getting them to "see" you. You have to trust God and let go and reserve your best for those God has for you. \~ Jenny Vierstraete I put so much effort into people some times and get nothing in return. But I also look at better to give then receive. So do you keep trying or find good friends that love you and even through the bad or do you make an effort to show people you care about them. One day they will go, by then it may be too late and I'll be gone. \~ Donna Rhodda Get rid of expectations, then maybe you won't be disappointed. Life gets in the way at times, recognize it and fix it. \~ Mark Johnston ### Some people are beautiful just in what they are URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/some-people-are-beautiful-just-in-what-they-are/ Last updated: 2023-05-16T02:30:32.000Z The true beauty to behold comes directly from within. External beauty is not permanent as it changes when the years roll by. Real beauty comes from the inside when you are beautiful just in what you are. Your look & words are the most beautiful. Inner beauty comes from the goodness within. What comes from the mouth comes from the heart. \~ Stuart Hall ### If you are giving your all to someone URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-are-giving-your-all-to-someone/ Last updated: 2023-05-14T02:30:40.000Z Some people can't see it when we give all we got to a special person. If they can't see, don't waste your time.. Life is too short for that. \~ Philly Milo If you're giving your "all" to anyone other than God, you're not giving it to the right person. ### What's meant to be will always find a way URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/whats-meant-to-be-will-always-find-a-way/ Last updated: 2023-05-12T02:30:21.000Z The less you resist, the more it will flow to you. "What is meant to be" Destiny ? (the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future) We are ever changing beings. Our destiny depends on our acts today and the dynamics created by that energetic effect. Pre-destination is a control mechanism more often used by religions in order to control people. \~ Regina Sebright ### Never get tired of doing little things for others URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/never-get-tired-of-doing-little-things-for-others/ Last updated: 2023-05-10T02:30:04.000Z Little things are 'magic' of life. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. \~ Mother Teresa Do the very best & move on, never expect anything back it's the greatest thing to do. **Believe it or not, I have spent most of my life giving to others (and asking for very little in return.) Now I am open to receiving and cherish it. \~ Nita Singh** **If people just thought of what they could do to even make one persons day a little better it would be a much better world.** ### Life is for deep kisses URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/life-is-for-deep-kisses/ Last updated: 2023-05-08T02:30:06.000Z **I have been blessed to have many of each of these with a most wonderful man, for 20 years. It has been a very blessed life. \~ Michelle Brake** ### Don't ever regret knowing someone in your Life URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/dont-ever-regret-knowing-someone-in-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-05-06T02:30:10.000Z Life is a lesson that never stops teaching us, just be mindful and let good people in learn from the bad and cherish the loved. \~ Andy Warbutton People come and go in our lives or they stay for some time. Some we'd have liked to stay a bit longer, some we'd wished left earlier but in the end everything happens for a reason and the only thing that we can do is hold the good times in our hearts, learn from and let go of the bad because in the end, we are the sum of our experiences, we are also the product of how we interact with the people that we meet in the road of life. \~ Unknown People should look for the red flags if they want happiness. No one is perfect but good character is something that will never change. They should be capable of giving 120 % 100% of the time. I’ve seen happy couples that have lasted over half a century and miserable couples who stay together for whatever reason. Alone is better unless you’ve found someone who you like and respect and enjoy being with. \~ Victoria Mack **1.No waste of regret.** **2.People can’t be simply divided on bad and good,and experiences/memories can be good and bad.** **3.In different periods of life they can give all of that. To conclude,it’s on individual how to carry with that.** **\~ Dijana Haseljic** Remember the teaching isn't over until the lesson is learned. Maybe God needed you to go through the lesson again, don't regret the experience it will make you a better person in the long run. \~ Valerie Kee I’ve gained a lot more experience and lessons than had happy memories, but I do have a choice now who I allow to be close. I chose to find happiness and serenity as much as I can because I know the next lesson is just around the corner. \~ Jill Kaufman ### Sometimes you face difficulties URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/sometimes-you-face-difficulties/ Last updated: 2023-05-04T02:30:07.000Z People would start to call you mad, out of your mind, when you start follow your dream. \~ Jitu Das Doing something right is not always easy. It never is all that simple either. Difficulties abound and challenges are issued to divert you from your chosen path. Despite everything, so long as you stick to your guns and go for it, things will soon fall naturally into its rightful place. \~ Margaret Young People don't want you to grow because they know you have potential. They want you stuck in your little rut. The one they are in. \~ Victoria Mack In every situation there is a trial coming in. but don't lose your hope. God just test our patience. God loves everyone. ### If you have an Ugly Heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-have-an-ugly-heart/ Last updated: 2023-05-02T02:30:27.000Z An ugly face is nothing if you have a beautiful heart. Your heart shows through in everything you do and say. Looks capture the eyes. Personality captures the heart, but character captures the soul. Remember this always. Nobody has an ugly heart. Nobody is born as a bad human. Some people just have a week mind and got brainwashed too much. \~ Florine Vollbrecht One needs to stay true to yourself. It's a fight but you need to fight for your soul. The most important things your heart has are feelings and the most important thing your face has is a smile. Unfortunately people can't see the the beauty of a heart, because always, over and over again, people judge a book by its cover not by it's content. Sometimes a person considered to have an ugly face, that person has one of the most gentle and good heart. It's human nature, and that can't be changed. \~ Lorant Vaida Ever notice that you may think someone is not that attractive but you get to know them and their inner beauty comes out and slowly but surely. They get cuter and the opposite is true too. Looks are based a lot on what we feel about a person. That's why a mother can love a baby that is deformed and think they are the most beautiful baby in the world. We love them for all they are not what they aren't. \~ Lynn Kunick If there is nobody in your life you can live for then live for the one you see in the mirror because you yourself are awesome. ### To be rich is not what you have in your bank account URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/to-be-rich-is-not-what-you-have-in-your-bank-account/ Last updated: 2023-04-30T02:30:05.000Z A rich heart blesses and shares the wealth in all ways on all levels through humility and gratitude. A greedy heart suffers, lives a lie and will never have enough. \~ Stuart Hall If you are rich in your heart, you know how to share your blessings and be good with others especially those who are in need. \~ Ssen Sanchez Being happy and satisfied from the bottom of our heart is everything which we wish to get by struggle or money, the main purpose of every effort is Happiness of Heart and peace. \~ Jasmine Marlin It's a better form of being rich to have a rich heart. That way when you are financially rich, you will be financially generous because of your "rich heart". \~ Renee Williams Learning to give your heart to others will fill it up, as more often than not. It is those with little who give the most and know true happiness. \~ Jonathan Johnny Most rich people are not happy. They are so worried about what they don't have. I would rather choose to be rich with true friends surrounding all around rather than to be rich with material things with no friends at all. \~ Robert Riosa ### If you don't follow your Heart URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/if-you-dont-follow-your-heart/ Last updated: 2023-04-28T02:30:10.000Z When it says follow your heart, it really means follow your intuition, because intuition is your heart knowledge. Sometimes God leads us by way of the heart because the heart seeks out the hidden secrets but opposite of following the heart is to listen to others who most definitely don't know what is the best for you. ### Love is a risk URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/love-is-a-risk/ Last updated: 2023-04-26T02:30:56.000Z Love is a battlefield. You go out and fight. Sometimes you go home wounded, sometimes victorious. \~ Jahwella Ocay Love can be very confusing whether your married or single.You both need to be clear in conversation and really listen to each other or you don't know true feelings. \~ Linda Dunham Ultimately, every relationship serves you in a positive way in the end, even if the only thing that you learn is that you don't want to have that type of relationship again. It's not so much that love is a risk, being hurt by love is, but if you never take the risk, you'll never see the reward and no matter what the situation, there is always a reward. \~ Blair Robinson Everything we do in life has a risk, but we do it anyway. If you know that it's worth taking that risk then do it. \~ Judith Jabian ### Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/just-because-the-past-didnt-turn-out-like-you-wanted/ Last updated: 2023-04-24T02:30:14.000Z If you are willing to let go of the past and get rid of the baggage, then move forward unencumbered. Free at last. When you love someone and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you're apart and when you love someone more and you’ ve done all you can do, you set them free and is that love was true, it will all come back to you. Trust! My past wasn't what I had planned, but my present has far exceeded my expectations and I look forward to tomorrow. \~ Rick Violette ### Life has knocked me down a few times URL: https://www.enlighteningquotes.com/life-has-knocked-me-down-a-few-times/ Last updated: 2023-04-22T02:30:47.000Z What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Walk away and don't look back. We all have gone through this at some point in our life. Have the courage to stand up and move on and maybe next time you have to be careful. It may take longer now to get up, but I eventually make it. \~ Anita Smith _Includes the latest 500 public posts. Use `/sitemap.xml` for the complete archive of public content._