Quote Therapy

“Your talent can get you to many places, but only your character can keep you there.”

“You have to make an exit to be able to make an entrance.”

“Suffering is a part of the journey. It’s the dignity we bring to the suffering that determines the outcome thereof.”

There are many people you will love and they are not necessarily the same people you will make a life with. Are you looking for a love story or are you looking for a life story?

“You are never going to progres to the next until you learn the lessons in this one.”

“What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.”

Fear is the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

Feelings are embodied experiences.

At some point, after enough tears and alcohol, my thinking began to shift and I began to understand that although had done something horrible to me and she could be blamed for that, it was now my own responsibility to make myself happy again. She was never going to pop up and fix things for me. I had to fix them for myself.

There’s a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person actually being responsible for your situation. Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you. This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things. You always get to choose the metrics by which to measure your experiences. 

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”

What I know is that whenever there is a communication breakdown there has to be a bully and an attacker, a rescuer, and a victim.

Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.