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12 Reasons Why You Should Never Ever Settle For Lukewarm Love

There's going to be enough average things in your life. Love shouldn't be one of them.
Katie Mather
September 12, 2016
“If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Passion
“Real women are strong, resilient, independent, loyal, and lovable. One thing about them is they never settle.”
— Unknown, Women Who Love Too Much
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Strong Woman, Independent Women
“There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
— Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s Top 9 Fundamentals for Changing Your World
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Passion, Living
“Never go back for less, just because you're too impatient to wait for the best.”
— Unknown, Never go back for less, just because you're too impatient to wait for the best.
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, impatient
“Are you really happy or just really comfortable?”
— Unknown, Happy or Comfortable?
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Happy, comfortable
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will asset integrity of purpose and imaginative vision agains the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
— Cecil Beaton, Be Different
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Daring, different
“Don’t choose a relationship because you’re afraid to be alone. Or because you’re afraid you won’t find someone better. Or because you’re afraid you’re not good enough to attract someone who’s nuts about the real, true you. Be strong, not scared! You’re a tough cookie and you know you’re meant for more, so don’t let fear make decisions for you. Trust in the good life can bring you.”
— Amy Spencer, 10 Reasons You Should Never Settle in Love
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Relationships
“Fear of being alone can skew your priorities. A recent set of studies found that people who were afraid of being single...were more likely to prioritize being in a relationship over the quality of that relationship or a potential partner. 

Could it be that people who are afraid of being single are happier in lower-quality relationships because of their lower standards—that for them, any relationship is better than none at all?

Not likely. The researchers found that fearful participants in bad relationships were just as depressed and lonely as fearful participants who were single.”
— Juliana Breines Ph.D., 4 Reasons Not to Settle in a Relationship
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love
“You want to grow old with someone who makes you feel special, beautiful, spontaneous, loved, and cherished. Someone to sit on a porch swing with when you’re 80 looking at the grandchildren playing soccer in the backyard. If you cannot picture yourself doing this with your significant other than they may not be that significant.”
— Tricia Miller, 7 Things To Never Settle For In A Relationship
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Growing Old
“I made the decision I wouldn’t settle after a brief period of living with a man who treated me terribly. I moved in with him because I thought that was better than being alone.

Following months of frustrating serial dating, I realized I’d rather be at home with my dog, Lulu, watching Shark Tank on Friday night than grabbing drinks with another annoying douchebag.

So, I stopped being obsessive about finding a man.”
— Amanda Lauren, Why I Didn't Settle, and Why You Shouldn't Either
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love
“There’s going to be enough average things in your life. Love shouldn’t be one of them.”
— Carrie Kellenberger, Life’s Too Short to Settle for Average Love
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, Average
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Don't Settle, Lukewarm Love, You Deserve More