Lisa Unger Quotes

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm throu...

Who you marry, what you choose as your profession, how you were raised—yes, that is the big picture. But, as they say, the devil’s in the details.

Grief is not linear. It’s not a slow progression forward toward healing, it’s a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated...

Anger is not the absence of love. Anger broke you apart. Love and anger wrap around each other and becomes one living thing inside your heart.

But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive...

Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Fear holds on. Love lets go. Yes,

Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.

Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to b...

I couldn't leave there  without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that I've come to think of as life rot. Where a life has spoiled, gone bad through l...

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

I think we draw people into our lives...It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs...For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.

Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.

In that moment,feeling my isolation in a way I never had before, I thought about calling her. But I didn't want to hear the fear and disappointment in her voice. I didn't want to to deal with her expe...

It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can mak...

Maybe it was hereditary, anger. Maybe it lay dormant in boyhood, the disease taking hold in late adolescence. Then it either burned out before any damage was done, or took control.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.