“Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another. But in actuality it is not love; it is a form of anti-love. It seeks to receive rather than to give. It nourishes infantilism rather than growth. It works to trap and constrict…”Tagged: Life, Dependency
“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”Tagged: Life, Responsibility
“The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.”Tagged: Life, Miracles, Belieivng
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.”Tagged: Life, Courage, Fear
“If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and you cannot be a person worthy of love when your primary goal in life is to passively be loved.”Tagged: Life, Love, Self-Love
“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.”Tagged: Growing Up, Problems, Learning, Discipline
“Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”Tagged: Growing Up, Problems, Learning
“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up–that growing is an ever ongoing process.”Tagged: Life, Growing Up, Learning
“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything.”Tagged: Life, Growth, Learning
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”Tagged: Life, Growth
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”Tagged: Life, Time, Self-Worth
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.”Tagged: Life, Difficulties