“if your Problem is someone else's behavior, you go to a program for the solution, because the solution might be do nothing.”
“Only when our adult children are forced to face the consequences of their own actions - their own choices - will it finally begin to sink in how deep their patterns of dependence and avoidance have become. And only then will we as parents be able to take the next step to real healing, forever ending our enabling habits and behaviors.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“We must stop trying to change their behaviors by making choices for them and by shielding them from the painful consequences of their actions or inaction. We cannot change them.
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Setting our adult children free to live the lives God intended them to live is not abandonment - even if it means setting them free during a time of severe trial and tribulation in their lives.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“What will we do when we stop living our adult children's lives for them?
We will start living our own.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“Who says vanquish anymore?" Moog breathed.
People who vanquished things, Clay supposed.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“He considered going for his hammer, which lay just out of reach, or maybe diving for Ganelon instead, since waking the warrior was probably his best hope of survival.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“Which are you, the monster or the man?”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with the Men: Since there can be no superiority, but that of brutal strength, shewn in the latter, to entitle them to engross all power and prerogative to themselves: nor any incapacity proved in the former, to disqualify them of their right, but what is owing to the unjust oppression of the Men, and might be easily removed.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man