“Love is not part time and its not conditional. I learned this from my mom.”

“Love is the easy part; it's the living without the love you need is hard.”

“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”

“The fact is it happened. It's over now. I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.”

“I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My past and present were the two candles we started with; she would ask me what I would like to start with or deal with today. I would light up either my past or my present depending on the answer. During the last few sessions we've used the candles I've noticed my past melting more and more and becoming duller and duller in light.”

“I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”

“For nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the ind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”