Mindy Jackson > Mindy's Quotes

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

“Life is complex.
Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. ”
― Scott Peck

“How can there be self-help groups?”
― Steven Wright

“Life's managed, not cured. ”
― Phillip C. Mcgraw

“You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”
― George Alexiou

“You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.”
― Golda Poretsky

“IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET”
― Mo Stegall, Against All Odds I Can Be: 10 Steps To Revolutionize Your Destiny

“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anaïs Nin

“No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.”
― Russell Simmons, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All

“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
― Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

“I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life

“My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.”
― Ethlie Ann Vare

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!”
― T.C. Carrier

“A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.”
― Ethlie Ann Vare, Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs

“A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTS

I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.

II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.

III: You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.

IV: You have the right to change your mind.

V: You have the right to make mistakes—and be responsible for them.

VI: You have the right to say, “I don’t know.”

VII: You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.

VIII: You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.

IX: You have the right to say, “I don’t understand.”

X: You have the right to say, “I don’t care.”

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY”
― Manuel J. Smith, When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy

“Your inner strength is your outer foundation”
― Allan Rufus

“A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.”
― Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You

“Your self-confidence is simply the part of your brain that tells you whether or not you should try something different or new or believe in yourself, and just as a Jedi truly believes that it is within their power to control their thoughts and stay in the Light, so can you.”
― Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You