Lessons for Living Quotes

“Believing that things outside you will make you happy is false hope.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“It’s independence that allows a real connection. A person with their own life and identity is less reactive to their partner. The relationship is important, but it’s not life-or-death.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Self-love has the power to change everything in your life. You are less vulnerable to others’ reactions. You are bolder and more relaxed. When you make a mistake, you recover much faster.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Self-love is the process of accepting the most inferior part of yourself.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Inferiority is the basic spiritual condition of man.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Forward motion is a lifelong responsibility for all of us.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Children must be taught to respect time. This means that important things like going to sleep, eating, and bathing must be done when it is time to do them (preferably at the same time every day), not when the child feels like doing them.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“There are three things that are indispensable for a strong family: love, spirituality, and discipline.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“The parent has to find a way to say, “Wait, whatever we are doing in our family, that is what’s most important to my child—not who their friends are or what school they go to.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Only when you realize that nobody can exempt you from the pain and effort of living will you stop looking for magic in your relationships.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“The human dilemma is that the important things in life are unprovable. It is precisely because faith does not require proof that it has so much power. You cannot prove that you love your parent, for example. Yet you know you do. It has nothing to do with logic or the intellect. Faith, too, is a different kind of knowledge.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Our culture is marked by the relentless pursuit of the better deal.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“When meals or prayers become rituals, when the parents commune with each other for a short time each day, when activities are ordered in a structured and rhythmic manner, the family finds a degree of peace and coherence.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“It’s dynamic—negative thinking represents a force in your consciousness that wants to displace anything healthy.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“Without the belief that we are living the totality of a God-willed life, no amount of money or fame will calm us down.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“as we need air. This is not abstract philosophy, it is a description of our nature. But it requires constant work to stay in touch with these forces. And yet it is also our nature to try to avoid this work.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

“human beings can never be made happy by the material world. We are spiritual beings and can be emotionally healthy only when we are in touch with a higher world.”
― Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You