When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

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

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.