Psychology & Behavior

The “bad” parent is not the one whose child ends up doing the wrong thing. The “bad” parent is the one who doesn’t intervene, react, and try to change the situation once it happens...

Can I forgive someone in my head and heart when I have been wronged and I never even received an apology? And why would forgiving that person make me feel better, when I am perfectly happy with my anger and resentment that I feel rightfully belongs?

Be small, accomplish big things, enjoy life.

It is so easy to want to throw out anything that was ever associated with him. To burn it and leave nothing left. But I can’t. You see, so much of who I am is because of him...

There’s only one way to transform the ugliest, nastiest, darkest gunk of this world: by letting it make you stronger. That’s when you’ve ripped off its mask . . .

The ultimate tutorial for surmounting every rock, mountain and cliff-hanger of life.

A healthy self-esteem should give us the confidence to make our own independent choices to be a unique and original being. It should. But it hasn't.

Only once we are free can we speak. Slaves do not speak. They don’t have a voice. And even if they do, they will not be heard . . .

It didn’t matter that those in the tables around us had so much food it could barely fit; as soon as they saw I had something different, heads turned

There is a lot of pain in our collective history. For many of us, there is a lot of pain in our individual histories as well. But no matter how deeply we bury it, how much we would like to pretend it didn’t happen, that will not make it go away...