The gift of changing requires you to persevere in your changes in spite of any personal discomfort or disappointment in your beloved’s instantaneous reaction; it may take some time for him/her to feel...
Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.
A lousy relationship is never better than no relationship at all.
Baking bread is as glorious as planting flowers, as doing a cardiac bypass, as teaching a child to read.
Sadly, hurting feelings has risen in our society to the status of a high crime, and that’s too bad, because temporary hurt feelings that lead to an awakening of positive possibilities are a small pric...
You need to be a good-enough mom--attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes.
The less you behave like you care, the less you come to care. The less you care, the more you can stay on track with your personal mission and the more frustrated the bad guys become because their mis...
And you know, when it comes to a long-term, committed relationship: Love is not enough. There are issues of honor, respect, mutuality, sacrifice, acceptance, supportiveness, similarity of life values...
Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something bigger than that before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of I can't do anything...
Courage is not the lack of fear, it is fear plus action.
Jane represents a lot of you who are terribly determined to avoid risk. You stay with the pain you know and avoid the possibility of joys, for the pains they might bring with them. You whine about you...
Self-esteem is earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world--when you show such courage and tenacity-...
You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something--that is...