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“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

“Love is a choice you make everyday.”
― Gary Chapman

“Love is a verb.”
― Gary Chapman

“The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

“Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.”
― Gary Chapman

“Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.”
― Gary Chapman

“Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling everything.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“I am a sensitive introverted woman, which means that I love humanity but actual human beings are tricky for me. I love people but not in person.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The anxiety that makes it difficult to exist in my own skin also makes it difficult to exist in a world where so may people are in so much pain - and that makes me a relentless activist.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Depression and anxiety are not feelings. Feelings return me to myself. Depression and anxiety are body snatchers that suck me out of myself so that I appear to be there but I’m really gone. Other people can still see me, but no one can feel me anymore—including me. For me, the tragedy of mental illness is not that I’m sad but that I’m not anything. Mental illness makes me miss my own life.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed