Deborah Boutland

“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
― St. Francis Of Assisi

“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
― Clementine Paddleford

“The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“It is a melancholy fact that childhood, so short when compared with the average span of life, should exert such a strong and permanent influence on character that no amount of self-training afterwards can ever completely counter it.”
― Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold: The intimate, revealing Golden Age memoir from the 9th Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt