Patrick’s Reviews > The Choice: Embrace the Possible > Status Update

… The biggest prison is in your own mind, and in your pocket, you already hold the key: the willingness to take absolutely absolute responsibility for your life; the willingness to risk; the willingness to release yourself from judgment and reclaim your innocence, excepting and loving yourself for who you really are – human, imperfect, and whole.

Strength isn’t reacting, it’s responding – feeling your feelings, thinking them over, and planning an effective action to bring you closer to your goal.

To forgive is to grieve—for what happened, for what didn’t happen—and to give up the need for a different past.

Anger, however, consuming is never the most important emotion. It is only the very outer edge, the thinly exposed top layer of a much deeper feeling. And the real feeling that’s disguised by the mask of anger is usually fear. And you can’t feel love and fear at the same time.

Expression is the opposite of depression.

“Our future is the sum of an equation that is part intention, and part circumstance. And our intentions could shift. Or split.”

Quote 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.”

WHAT a lady. Wow.