Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Joyce BrothersRead
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
Interpretation
True fulfillment comes from embracing and appreciating every aspect of life.
Joyce Brothers emphasizes that the key to achieving true happiness and satisfaction lies in the ability to love and accept all elements of life, both good and bad. By cultivating a mindset of love towards our experiences, we can find completeness and joy in our lives, rather than seeking external measures of success.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about the importance of positivity in everyday life.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.
Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?
I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.
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