Failure is no accident.
If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.
The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.
My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
You, and only you, choose how you feel.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.
Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
Who we are now is all that really matters.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
