“You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.” BreakCircumstancesCatAddDareOur RelationshipTrust Me Author:Kathy Young
“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.” FirstsDifficultDifferencesImpossibleEventsMovementObjectsCircumstancesConstantStatementsDataPerceiveRelativeOur RelationshipObserversInitialsSensoryDerivatives Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
“But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary -- your heart, His dwelling place -- unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life -- your circumstances, your relationships -- to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman He's planned for you to be.” HeartMadeRealBeautifulRememberLove YouBecomingCircumstancesAdultsPressureOur RelationshipLive Your LifeBeautiful WomenDwellingSanctuaryExteriorReal YouTailorsDwelling Place Author:Anne Ortlund
“Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.” WellsDifficultPerfectCircumstancesSkillsGainsRaisesTrackUpliftingSupposed To BeWrongOur RelationshipFrighteningGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever SurrenderNot Being PerfectRediscovery Author:Martha Beck