Dysfunctional Quotes

Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted negative stimulus.

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

One needn't stop dysfunction just evince and reflect.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.

Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they’ve' got a lot of--

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Live and learn not to take things so personal.

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

He knows I’ve seen something in him. Something I recognize, only because it exists in me too.

Being real is being true to you.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

There are orphanages, " he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?

They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve.