“We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.” IfsPersonsActionHurtSituationWiseAliveBalanceForgivenessForgivingPainfulTraumaResentmentBehalfHolding OnErase Author:Tian Dayton
“There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.” WorldUnderstandingDoorsMysteryInternalsMasteryUnderstanding Others Author:Tian Dayton
“We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.” TryingHumansLittlesMovingCultureLosesMachinesRateSpeedContactPaceRobotsHumanness Author:Tian Dayton
“Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.” FeelsLooksHeartSoulEyePainMovingSufferingWatchesTearsAppropriateHeart And SoulCleansingToxicity Author:Tian Dayton
“Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.” SaidCatholicCoffeeMinistersLatterPriestsChastity Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
“One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.” MatterWishMarriageLaughingFrance Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.” IfsWorldDoeStatesCareWishMarriageCasesAdviceThis WorldHusbandMarriedEnglandFolksQuittingFancyDisagreeBad Husband Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
“It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.” MaySaidMarriageCenturyPhoenixHappy Marriage Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans