You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.
Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
Truth is love’s mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone’s mother. Somehow, some way, Mother always finds out that you are lying. When she does, there is hell to pay!
It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life. —James Baldwin
I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me.
Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human bei...
We really want to see change in the world and find a common, sacred meeting place, we can practice forgiveness rather than against-ness.
Used the sordid details of my stories as an excuse to talk badly about men, judge them, mistrust them, expect little from them, and give of myself begrudgingly as I waited for the axe to fall on my ne...
Thinking that I had done something
There comes a point where a person’s psycho-social history is of little or no consequence.
The form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another.
Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of...
Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will...
The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. The
Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.
Even before my grandmother could beat or punish me for one thing or another, before my father could sit me down to lecture me about my defiant disobedience, I was already hemorrhaging internally from...
We fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people. But the solitude of Snapper Five provided Rhonda with the silence she...
Dislike in ourselves.