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Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. –Joyce Brothers— Anger is familiar to us all. We feel it toward others and from others. The expression and acceptance of anger is where we often falter. Most of us were told when we were small girls that we shouldn’t be angry, but […]
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The pure relationship, how beautiful it is! How easily it is damaged, or weighted down with irrelevancies–not even irrelevancies, just life itself, the accumulations of life and of time. –Anne Morrow Lindbergh… Many of us are presently rebuilding old relationships and searching for new ones, ones that we hope we can protect. We can’t survive […]
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. —Ayn Rand— The struggle to love one another may be a daily one for us, and it is made more difficult because we are still stumbling in our attempts at self-love.Many of us have lived our […]
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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one’s finger and say, “It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?” —Agatha Christie— No experience of our lives is pure, unadulterated, set apart from all other experiences. There is an eternal flow in our lives. […]
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It takes time, love, and support to find peace with the restless one. —Deidra Sarault— Restlessness is born of frustration. Perhaps we want to move ahead with our lives more quickly. Does a job have us trapped? Do past troubles haunt us still? Maybe perfectionism tarnishes every attempt to achieve. We can learn from our […]
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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open. —Lillian Smith— Today stands before us, ready for our involvement. And it will offer us opportunities for personal growth and occasions to help another make progress on her path to […]
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When I slow down long enough to smell the roses, I usually see the beauty and all else that is ours to share. —Morgan Jennings— We overlook so many joys, so many hidden treasures, when we hurry from place to place, person to person, experience to experience, with little attention anywhere. All that matters passes […]
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Love has a hundred gentle ends. —Leonora Speyer— Letting go is a process that is seldom easy. For many, its meaning is elusive. How do we “let go”? Letting go means removing our attention from a particular experience or person and putting our focus on the here and now. We hang on to the past, […]
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On occasion I realize it’s easier to say the serenity prayer and take that leap of faith than it is to continue doing what I’m doing. —S.H.— The pain of change is a reality. But so is the pain of no change–when change is called for. In spite of our desires, changing others will never […]
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Reared as we were in a youth and beauty oriented society, we measured ourselves by our ornamental value. —Janet Harris— Rare is the woman who doesn’t long for a svelte body, firm breasts, pretty teeth, a smooth complexion. Rare is the woman who feels content, truly satisfied with her total person. We are often torn […]