“We cannot stake our own fate on others, no matter how close our relationship with them.”

“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
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“How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?”

“No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.”

“How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still
In matters that belong to other men,
What beetles in our own!”

“Tis strange how the heart can create
Or colour from itself its fate;
We make ourselves our own distress,
We are ourselves our happiness.”

“How much we give to other hearts our tone,
And judge of others' feelings by our own!”

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

“The most common reason that relationships fall apart is because of safety. On a subconscious level, even though our relationships grant us a sense of safety, if we perceive that something about a relationship makes us unsafe, we care more about our own safety than we care about the other person’s experience and we care more about our own safety than we care about the health of the relationship itself.”

“We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on "his" behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.”