Being yourself can really jack your life.
And I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to keep getting up, because anything worth having is worth breaking my heart over.
It isn’t necessary to understand someone to have respect for them.
If I had it my way I’m sure I would be quite miserable.
In his book The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis refers to it as “the law of undulation”. It is the idea that everything about our human nature is cyclical: our relationships, our attitudes, our interests, our spirituality, our convictions.
This life isn’t given to us as an opportunity prove our value. This life is an opportunity to prove what we value.
The importance of identifying your child or yourself, especially in cases where you’re dealing with a spirited/difficult person, is to avoid being overdrawn emotionally to avoid public and private meltdowns. As we have public and private meltdowns daily this caught my eye.
It isn’t that I’m completely unromantic- I just have different ideas about romance than some woman.
“The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world.”