I will expose my morals, values and beliefs to you but I will not impose them on you. 

 (And sometimes I will not even expose them to you.)                                     

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 Resentment is like taking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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    In every negative situation there is a positive.

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Some people would rather stay in the hell of the known then venture into the unknown.

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              You teach people how to treat you.

                 

        

 

The process of becoming a person begins with a mess. 

                       -C.G. Jung

                                                                                        

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                   What's under the anger?

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Be impeccable with your word. 

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    Don't take it personally. (It is about their own reality).

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Always do your best.

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     People are illogical, self-centered, & unreasonable.

                     Love them ANYWAY.   

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To know better is to do better.

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     And so you see, all marriages are mistakes, that then we spend time repairing; and some of us            are more successful in preparing than others.  - Salvador Minuchin

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There will always be blindness and denial in how we construct our realities.

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      Human beings have two competing urges - one is to be separate & unique, the other is to fuse                  with others and never be alone.

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Four things that harm a relationship the most are:

                criticism  (attack strategy)

                contempt   ( attack strategy)

                defensiveness  (retreat strategy)

                stonewalling   (retreat strategy)

                A fifth is belligerence.

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       One change instituted consistently can turn an entire system around.

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                         Study widely.

                     Question thoroughly.

                    Deliberate carefully.                

                      Analyze clearly.

                     Act conscientiously.

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     Beware how you take hope away from another human being.

                                  -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some become stronger at the broken places.  

        - Ernest Hemingway 

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     The best time to relax is when you don't have the time.

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Men are only as great as they are kind.   -Elbert Hubbard

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     It is the start that stops most people. - Don Shula

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            We judge others by their behavior.

            We judge ourselves by our intentions.

                    - Ian Percy

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Wisdom is how to use knowledge.

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           He who loves his work never labors.

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.                      - Victor Frankl

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         I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.  

                 - Chris Swindle

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It is never to late to be what you might have been.  

                       - George Elliot

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         A few times in your life, someone will tell you something so right, so deeply true that it changes                  you forever.

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If you dwell over the past you will trip over the future.

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        The greatest and most important problems of life are FUNDAMENTALLY UNSOLVABLE.

        They can never be solved, but only outgrown.    -Carl Jung

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The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.   

                -Richard Rohr

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       The familiar and the habitual are so falsely reassuring, and most of us make our homes                            there permanently.     - Richard Rohr

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...those who have gone "down" are the only ones who understand "up"...

                                            -Richard Rohr

                

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       If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much                     resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.       -Richard Rohr

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From your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit            beyond yourself.

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        GRACE seems to be at the foundation of everything.

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You will see only what you have already decided to look for, and you cannot see what you are not ready or told to look for.     -Richard Rohr in Falling Upward

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        Negativity Dominance - Bad things hurt more than good things feel good.

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Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

                                       -William Shakespeare

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    I cannot compete with your belief.    - Dr. Stacy Fahlsing

 

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