“When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.”
“When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first.”
“Sometimes a person has to accept who they are before they can share it with someone else.”
“It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave.”
“Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.”