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“I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.”
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“That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.”
― The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
― The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.”
― Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
― Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
“Your child needs not only your attention but also a relationship with you.”
― Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
― Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
“Let's face it. It's taken years for you to learn to be the person you are, so you're not going to change overnight. But the good news in that you can unlearn those aspects that you want to change and chart a new path in life. And it's never too late to start, whether you're 20, 40, 60, or 80!”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
“Men tend to focus on the present and the future, and they like to present possibilities wether they're realistic or not. They are often fast moving and risk takers. Contrast that with women, who tend to focus on the present and the past due to their relational abilities, and since they use both sides of their brain, they tend to think more realistically and in detail about tasks that need to be done. As a result, they are usually more cautious and less risk taking. Put the two together and it's easy to see why you and your son will sometimes disagree or even clash. (22)”
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“Before you flare up at another’s faults, take time to count 10 of your own. —Mrs. Amos Miller”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“Because no one is perfect, we all desperately need forgiveness. By forgiving others you allow them to be human, and in doing so it makes you more aware of how human you really are. Think of all the people you've judged because of their behavior. Isn't it true that some of them behave in very similar ways to you? There isn't a person on the face of this earth who doesn't need grace.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You: And What You Can Do about It
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You: And What You Can Do about It
“Couples who work together learn how to take stress not as a personal attack but as a challenge they can take on together. The key to growth and enrichment in marriage is in discovering ways to convey, "I understand how you feel and I'm going to do my best to meet your needs. I love you, and I'll be around forever.”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. —John Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“The goal in marriage is not to think alike but to think together. —Unknown”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.”
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“If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you’ll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.”
― The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People
― The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People
“Stay always within the boundaries where God’s love can reach and bless you.”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“For those of you who have childhood memories with pain or loss in them, it probably doesn't take much to recall those grievances and grudges. But as we look at the power of confronting the truth about your past, I hope that you (...) can avoid the waste before the days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years. You can take control. You can avoid those wasted years.
And it's never too late to start.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
And it's never too late to start.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. —Peter DeVries”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.”
― Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle
― Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle
“Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.”
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“Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical tasks, different areas of their brains light up in response. In addition, females use both hemispheres, while male brain activity is restricted to one side. (21)”
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“You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.”
― The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
― The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.”
― Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
― Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
“They believe they have to earn their value and their worth, and that’s why they always try to please.”
― Smart Women Know When to Say No
― Smart Women Know When to Say No
“There are all sorts of lies you tell yourself over and over until you accept them as readily as you do your own skin. And it isn't always easy to recognize them as lies.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You: And What You Can Do about It
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You: And What You Can Do about It
“Everything is more effective when it’s done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.”
― Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle
― Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle
“don’t let yourself fall into the grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side trap. When you get to the other side, you still have to mow it!”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“Would you let someone else criticize you the way you criticize yourself? —Thomas Cash, The Body Image Workbook”
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
― 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“Think about and meditate on things you are thankful for. More importantly, think about people you are thankful for and why.”
― The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
― The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
“I didn’t have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.”
― Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days
― Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days
“Perhaps you've been through a seemingly endless string of difficult circumstances in life or you still feel anger toward your parents for painful childhood memories you have. Whatever the difficulties you've faced, you can overcome the lies attached to your private logic that continue to hold you back. So many people look everywhere but to themselves for the change that needs to happen in their lives, pointing at their missed opportunities and blaming their parents.
You don't have to be one of them.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
You don't have to be one of them.”
― What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It
“What do men need? #1 need: to be fulfilled (including sexual fulfillment) #2 need: to be respected (your wife’s respect is the highest priority) #3 need: to be needed (what self-respecting guy wants to come home to a wife who is determined to do everything on her own and doesn’t seem to need him?) What do women need? #1 need: affection (cuddling for the sake of closeness) #2 need: communication (she needs words, sentences, and whole paragraphs when you get home from work—not grunts) #3 need: commitment to family (she needs to know you’ll be there at your son’s soccer tournament and your daughter’s ballet recital, and she won’t have to wonder if you forgot)”
― Under the Sheets: The Secrets to Hot Sex in Your Marriage
― Under the Sheets: The Secrets to Hot Sex in Your Marriage
