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"Being able to say, 'No, is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle."
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"Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday."
"Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary."
"Be the same person- with or without money."
"With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives."
"If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change."
"If you let it bother you, it will bother you."
"Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding."
"Your words to yourself and to others should uplift, never tear down."
"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported."
"Emotional intelligence is making a huge mistake, but learning from it, forgiving yourself, and setting new and higher related-standards below which you will never operate."
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"Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand."
"Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners."
"Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says 'I am a mistake instead of saying 'I made a mistake."
"Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, for recovering from a traumatic situation is all a matter of how we think about what happened. It is not so much about what happened to us as what we make of the circumstance."
"The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you."
"We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital 'T or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small 't, seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness."
"As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended."
"Is God like the Greek god, Zeus, sending down lightning bolts to cause catastrophic events? Does God decree when tragic or untimely deaths occur? Does God have a list and when your time is up, you die? Is it 'God's will these events happen? On the other hand, do tragic events happen because of laws of nature or the law of averages?"
"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
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