Barry Pearman

“...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.”
― Terrence Real, How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

“The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This is the self that dies on the journey. The self that arrives is the self that was loved into existence by Divine Love. This is the person we were destined from eternity to become—the I that is hidden in the “I AM.”
― David G. Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

“To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough.”
― Edith Eva Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.”
― Terrence Real, How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women