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“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bad-karma, bargain-basement-prices, betrayers, cheaters, competition, dating, dating-advice, delusion, desperate, dignity, dogs, ego, empowerment, examples, exiting, eye-openers, false-confidence, false-happiness, forgetting, games, lack-of-value, lesson-in-life, letting-go, losing, love, low-self-esteem, marriages, men, mistakes, moving-on, observations, on-sale, pathetic, players, positive-women, regaining-control, relationships, revelation, sad, self-respect, self-worth, staying-positive, teenagers, the-good-life, truth, value, wasted-time, women

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“My heart was saying, "Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long." The Lord was answering, "I must teach you to long for something better.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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“We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: beauty, beloved, god, goodness, love, made, wisdom

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“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

tags: tomorrows-another-day

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“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.”
― Shannon L. Alder