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The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.

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There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism.
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Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.
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Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
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Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
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Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
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As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one.
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Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.
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Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.
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If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
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Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.
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the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.
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Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.
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Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
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It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.
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The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.
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Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.
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