Lê isto se estás cansado de esperar que o amor aconteça

Acontecia-me a toda a hora. Estava tão cansada de à espera do amor para bater à minha porta.

Mas isso é porque eu estava à espera que ele entrasse na minha vida. Pressionei-me para querer tanto o amor que perdi toda a lógica que tinha e procurei cegamente o amor.

You shouldn’t wait for love. Love will happen to you when you don’t ask for it.

Love will happen to you when you relax and accept the fact that things aren’t going to go your way every time.

That’s exactly how it was for me. Now, I catch myself staring at the love of my life when he’s doing stupid, everyday things. I catch myself staring at him like he’s doing something impossibly beautiful.

That’s how much I love him. I love every normal and ordinary move he makes. I love how he puts butter on his toast in the morning. I love every fiber of his being.

E consegui tudo isso porque deixei de esperar que o amor acontecesse.

Nunca me imaginei a dizer estas coisas sobre alguém. Queria dizê-las, mas era demasiado surrealista. Esperava partilhar o amor que tinha para dar com alguém, mas nunca imaginei que ele me iria amar de volta.

My whole life I was aching for love. I thought I was patient and I was always ready to love someone and to be loved. But now I get it that I wasn’t patient at all.

Estava tensa e agitada porque o amor nunca me bateu à porta. Queria tanto que ele viesse, mas não o via de todo.

Eu estava numa relação, mas as minhas desculpas eram o momento não é adequado, or I had some issues of my own and I didn’t want to unleash my problems on someone else. Or, I was in a relationship, but that wasn’t love.

That wasn’t the feeling of butterflies in your stomach. I didn’t go to bed thinking about him or waking up doing the same. That just wasn’t love.

Our whole lives we are searching for our soulmate. That’s what it all comes down to.

Queremos alguém para acariciar, alguém com quem partilhar os nossos problemas e alguém para quem voltar para casa no final do dia.

Isso leva-nos a contentarmo-nos com a primeira pessoa que aparece no momento certo, na verdade completamente errado.

Instead of giving our own lives some meaning and devotion to ourselves—working on ourselves, making ourselves better—we ache for something that will come, but not yet.

We lose most of our lives wanting something that we shouldn’t have to want yet.

O amor encontrar-te-á quando estiveres pronto para o aceitar.

Somos solteiros por uma razão. Ficamos com o coração partido por uma razão. Tudo isso faz parte da jornada que nos constrói como pessoas completas, mais inteligentes e melhores, que um dia estarão prontas para amar com todo o seu coração.

E porque andámos nas estradas acidentadas das nossas vidas, porque caímos e nos magoámos, tornamo-nos mais fortes mais tarde.

Tornamo-nos mais fortes e finalmente prontos para o belo reino do amor verdadeiro.

Keep waiting and be patient. Believe me—it will pay off in the end. Don’t fool yourself that you are becoming desperate because you really have plenty of time.

Don’t convince yourself that you’ve met your true love because that person will keep you from conhecer o tal que era suposto encontrarem.

Quando finalmente fizer as pazes consigo própria e se deixar levar pela magia da vida, ele virá.

I wish someone had told me this. I wish someone had told me I have to be alone to figure out my personal ‘manuals’ and the way I operate.

Gostava que alguém me tivesse dito que a solidão me traria a maior felicidade que alguma vez experimentei.

Gostava de ter sabido que tinha de me amar e respeitar primeiro se quisesse que outra pessoa fizesse o mesmo.

For a long time, I thought I was unlovable. I thought that I am never going to find love because I’m broken. I was born with a mistake that can’t be undone.

I thought that’s just the way life is. I wanted to change so many times.

Eu queria ser amada, por isso moldei-me em algo que os outros queriam.

Isso nunca durou porque eu não era assim. E pensei que era uma causa perdida. Pensei que nunca iria ter um final feliz. Mas depois encontrei um homem quando menos esperava.

Everything was so easy with him. I didn’t have to pretend to be something that I’m not. I was the person who I always was. I was finally myself and someone loved me for that.

I really didn’t see him coming. I thought I was supposed to be alone a few more years because frankly, Eu era feliz sozinho.

I found myself and I was happy with my life and with whom I have become. I didn’t think I was ready to love.

But there he came—barging in at the apparently right time.

Ele não era nada do que eu esperava que fosse. Ele era completamente diferente do que eu tinha imaginado. E o vosso também o será.

He won’t have the features you’ve imagined, but he’ll have that special ‘something’ that will sweep you off your feet.

O homem certo vale a pena esperar.

Don’t you ever settle for someone just because you are scared or lonely. He will never love you the way you were made to be loved. He will never make you happy the way you were meant to be happy.

Don’t settle for the mediocre feeling when the right one is waiting for you. The right love is waiting for you to stop waiting for it to happen.

Eu parei.