watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won t...
Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.
Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.
When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility
Your life is yours, not theirs. Your opinion of yourself, should also be yours, and not theirs. Sometimes, people can be so cruel and heartless. It can be hard to not be affected by it. Sometimes, it...
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
Let thy sacred home be thy heart.
If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another...
I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings.
God sees us differently. We see where we are but God sees where we can be.
You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.
My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peac...
Be weird...only losers are normal.
But I was coming to learn that much of your perception of a relationship is shaped by everything else that happens to be going on in your life at the time. When I first met Ed Farley, I had been starv...
Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.
To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.
The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.