"Friendship improves happiness and abate misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?"
"Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul"."
— Thomas a' Kempis

"Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.""
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

""The very presence of co-dependency dicates that there are atleast two players participating in a destructive dynamic."
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— Barbara Becnel

"You are not who people say you are. You are who you say you are."
— Kelly Dakin