“Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.”

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

It is true that you get what you tolerate.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

A person who hasn’t grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.

Cheating is a choice. Before you cheat, ask yourself does your partner deserves it?

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I don’t think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myself, but I think that it makes me a lot happier when I’m sharing my life with somebody.

Versace has always been a brand that I’ve loved, a brand that has supported me. I’ve been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.

If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.

Sometimes it’s the people who have the most baggage that become the most attentive and committed partners.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.