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

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.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Being real is being true to you.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, ' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

It hurts when people put you down.