How to Hug a Porcupine Quotes

“Life is brief. Time is precious. Wasting it in defense and attack, or in anger and fear, is regretful. Choose instead to practice patience, empathy, compassion, kindness, understanding and unconditional acceptance. Work towards creating greater harmony within yourself and in your relationships, and you will contribute to creating a healthier, saner world.”
― Debbie Joffe Ellis, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — ROBERT HEINLEIN”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — MICHAEL LEUNIG”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“If we choose to, we can maintain inner peace despite difficult outer circumstances. We can prevent unnecessary suffering.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
― Debbie Joffe Ellis, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“the ability to differentiate between your porcupine and his behavior. They are not the same! While we may not always agree with what our porcupine does, we should never lose sight of why we care for him. We can disagree with or be hurt by our porcupine’s behavior, but the porcupine remains front and center in our concerns. We may be disappointed by the deed, but we cherish and respect the doer.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Patience is a virtue.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Our “now” may contain echoes of the past, but it can also be a brand new start.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” — SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“It’s not your place to agree or disagree with someone else’s feelings.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“When porcupines are threatened, tiny muscles at the base of each quill tighten, causing their quills to stand up and the porcupine to appear much larger than it really is. Then the porcupine will rattle its quills, grunt, growl, and stamp its feet, all in an effort to scare off its attacker.”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life