How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

The future takes care of itself, and we should instead focus on taking care of the present. Try to make it pleasant and happy.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

My fingers running through her hair, she forgets all her problems.- Let's Get Lost

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.