“The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘. . and speak all the good I know of everybody.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically…to those who hardly think about us in return.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Do you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? Makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other people’s lives have we been in? Were we a part of someone’s life when their dreams came true? Or were we there when their dreams died? D…”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Just think, you could be a big part of someone else's life and not know it.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Part of being mysterious is learning not to make yourself available all the time.”— Rachel Rose, amazon.com
“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self”— Nathaniel Branden, amazon.com
“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So…”— Laura Davis, amazon.com
“Fighting became a way of life and seemed perfectly normal for your family.”— Steven Farmer, amazon.com
“The truth is, if we rebel in reaction to our parents, we are being controlled just as surely as if we submit.”— Susan Forward, Craig Buck, amazon.com
“If you want to believe human beings weren’t built for monogamy, that’s fine, but it’s a small way to look at it. We also weren’t built to eat at tables or work routinely or refine our minds or wear clothes. We do these things to have a higher quality of life. Freedom is not the ability to act on you…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Mom forgave me before she died, even though she didn't know I sat beside her.”— Annoymous, quora.com
“In toxic relationships, not only does your partner bring you down a lot. You must understand that without any kind of moral support there is no relationship at all.”— Devin Walters, amazon.com
“A life without structure is too risky. A life without structure is the road to collapse.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'”— Sherry Argov, huffingtonpost.com
“The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.”— Sherry Argov, huffingtonpost.com
“But it wasn't even defined as a relationship really. One day you liked me and another day you hated me. One day we were "just friends" and the next day you'd laugh in my face, saying we never can be just friends and I knew it. You were neither friend, but certainly a foe. Every sign and every friend…”— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com