...we can love someone without understanding that person.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

I'm not afraid to admit my weaknesses.

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.

No more than I was to be born.