If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Captain then called to the signalman, Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change
You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his inge...
When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of effectiveness, happiness, and trust...
We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world. Self-awareness enables...
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine...
The work will come again, but childhood won’t.
The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the fiel...
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put...
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles int...
Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.
Succeed at home first. Seek and merit divine help. Never compromise with honesty. Remember the people involved. Hear both sides before judging. Obtain counsel of others. Defend those who are absent. B...
Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.
My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?