If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!

Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.