Rebecca Tolley > Rebecca's Quotes

“Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“From a Buddhist point of view, if you can change your mind, you can change your world.”
― Gabriel Cohen, The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: The Buddhist Path through Divorce

“the Tibetan word for prayer translates as ‘wish path.”
― Gabriel Cohen, The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: The Buddhist Path through Divorce

“there’s an epidemic of ambivalence about many things these days.”
― Mira Kirshenbaum, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

“When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one’s own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.”
― Mira Kirshenbaum, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

“Fun is the glue of love.”
― Mira Kirshenbaum, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

“that good relationships make your life larger instead of smaller.”
― Susan J. Elliott, Getting Past Your Breakup: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

“The best way out is always through. —Robert Frost,”
― Karen Covy, When Happily Ever After Ends: How to Survive Your Divorce Emotionally, Financially and Legally

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Siddhartha Buddha,”
― Karen Covy, When Happily Ever After Ends: How to Survive Your Divorce Emotionally, Financially and Legally

“If you want to do something differently, you’re automatically swimming upstream.”
― Susan Pease Gadoua, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels

“If you can’t regulate your own emotional temperature, you’ll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“half the feeling of home is usually a person.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“As long as you’re willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“if the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn’t wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are,”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“What if part of God’s message to the world was you? The true and real you?”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. —Romans 12:6a, NIV”
― Henry Cloud, Never Go Back

“wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“character is not innate or automatic. You have to build it with effort and artistry.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Sin is also a necessary piece of our mental furniture because sin is communal, while error is individual.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Large angels take a long time unfolding their wings, but when they do, soar out of sight.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“You did it instead because you reordered your loves, and as Augustine says again and again, you become what you love.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Montaigne’s example teaches that if you have realistically low expectations, you’ll end up pleased in most circumstances.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Each moral climate is a collective response to the problems of the moment.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character