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And you know, when it comes to a long-term, committed relationship: Love is not enough. There are issues of honor, respect, mutuality, sacrifice, acceptance, supportiveness, similarity of life values and morality, to name only a few. They, too, don't come without struggling and striving, but, oh, are they worth it!
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Courage is not the lack of fear, it is fear plus action.
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Self-esteem is earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world--when you show such courage and tenacity--you will genuinely impress yourself. And most important, you will treat yourself accordingly and not settle for less from others--at least, not for long.
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A lousy relationship is never better than no relationship at all.
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You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something--that is the essence of soul-searching.
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You need to be a "good-enough mom"--attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes."
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Baking bread is as glorious as planting flowers, as doing a cardiac bypass, as teaching a child to read.
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Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.
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Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself."
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the less you behave like you care, the less you come to care. The less you care, the more you can stay on track with your personal mission and the more frustrated the bad guys become because their mission is destruction.
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Sadly, hurting feelings has risen in our society to the status of a high crime, and that's too bad, because temporary hurt feelings that lead to an awakening of positive possibilities are a small price to pay to literally save a life from wasted misery.
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The gift of changing requires you to persevere in your changes in spite of any personal discomfort or disappointment in your beloved's instantaneous reaction; it may take some time for him/her to feel trusting and open again to you. You have to have the compassion and fortitude to proceed forward based on what is right, not what gets immediate applause.
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Jane represents a lot of you who are terribly determined to avoid risk. You stay with the pain you know and avoid the possibility of joys, for the pains they might bring with them. You whine about your predicament and unhappiness, but choose that predicament and unhappiness over throwing your preoccupation with caution to the wind. Life becomes even shorter when you don't fill it. Separate Reasonable Negative Emotions from the
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