Alexandra

“Here’s the stark truth about the person who is right for you: They want the same lifestyle that you do. How do I know this? Because that is, by definition, what makes them right for you. To be with someone whose eyes light up when yours do, whose heart races when your blood also pounds, who is enticed and inspired by the same forces that drive you forward, is a gift many of us never truly get to experience.

Because we settle. We settle for the person we love over the person who could push us – to be bigger, stronger, greater versions of ourselves. We tell ourselves that love is enough. That it conquers everything. But we forget that love shouldn’t be the thing that conquers our lives – we should be. And we should do it deliberately, triumphantly, by the side of somebody who shares all of our joys and successes.

So how do we meet such a person? That’s simple – we do more of what we love. We give ourselves up to uncertainty, to searching, to pursuing what we want out of life without the certainty of having someone beside us while we do it. We throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the things that we love and we consequently attract the people who love what we love. Who value what we prioritize. Who appreciate all that we are. We throw ourselves into the heart of possibility instead of staying comfortably settled inside of certainty. Because we owe it to ourselves to do so. We owe it to ourselves to live the greatest life that we’re capable of living, even if that means that we have to be alone for a very long time.

At the end of the day, love is wonderful but it isn’t enough to make up for an entire lifetime of compromising your core values. You don’t want to spend forever gazing into somebody’s eyes expecting to find all of the answers you need inside of them. Wait for the person who is gazing outward in the same direction as you are.

It’s going to make all of the difference in the world”
― Heidi Priebe

“Nu mă interesează un bărbat decât în măsura în care cred că-l stăpânesc ca femeie, în care cred că sunt pentru el, într-un moment din viaţă, o fiinţă unică, de neînlocuit. Ştiu că sunt femei mai frumoase decât mine, dar asta nu are nicio însemnătate, fiindcă oricât de frumoasă ar fi o femeie, se poate totdeauna ivi alta, care să fie şi mai frumoasă.
Dar cred că poate exista o adâncime sufletească, o sensibilitate, o inteligenţă care pot însufleţi în aşa fel un anumit fizic, care pot crea o feminitate infungibilă(cum se spune în Drept despre bunurile care nu se pot schimba între ele, cum ar fi un tablou, un covor, un exemplar de carte dintr-o ediţie rară), amalgam unic de însuşiri de neînlocuit, cel puţin într-o clipă dată, pentru un om într-un anume climat sufletesc”
― Cella Serghi, Pânza de păianjen