You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that […]
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Like Yourself
In truth, if we do not like ourselves, we will be incapable of making healthy decisions. Instead, we will direct all of our personal power for decision-making into the hands of someone else: someone whom we want to impress, or […]
Continue reading »Why Did She Do That?
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche We act for a reason, a good one or a bad one. We speak based on emotions, […]
Continue reading »Carried by Clouds
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself And all the while I am being carried across the sky By beautiful clouds.” ~ Ojibway Indian saying quoted in Family Groups, Al-Anon. Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II. Al-Anon Family […]
Continue reading »I Will Accept Myself
I will, I will accept myself With hope and fear and wonder And what I have joined together Let no man put asunder. ~ Dory Previn “Morning Star/Evening Star” The tenth chapter of Mark we know so well the words […]
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