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“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.”
“If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.”
“As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, ...”
“Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.”
“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.”
“Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.”
“Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy”
“Being real is being true to you.”
“We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, This is who I amand I am okay. This is simplenot easy.”
“When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.”
“The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.”
“Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.”
“God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of Go...”
“Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.”
“He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, fro...”
“I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these...”
“Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.”
“We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind.”
“Every major outward change must first begin in the mind.”
“For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.”
