We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.
You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.
Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.
You have the power. You are the magic wand.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.
Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.
My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.
Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.
Emotions have no I.Q.
If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.
Don't underestimate how fine you are.
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