“My healing isn’t an abandonment of you. It’s a choice to no longer abandon me.”

It is okay to feel sad even at Christmas time.

Until you heal, it will hold you hostage.

There are no toxic people, only toxic patterns.

Proud yourself when you find the courage to let go of that harmful person that you carry for so long.

Self-love means to appreciate who you are, while being committed to your evolution.

You are not hard to love. You are just stuck in a cycle of asking for it from the wrong person.

We have to learn to spot the difference and reflect often.

Appreciate people when you see their struggle, not only when you see them successful.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

Self-love is not only about acceptance; it is also about growth.

Your parents don’t teach you how to heal, experience does.

Productive stress is a modern mask for addiction to chaos.

Honoring your mother is not the same as honoring her wounds.

Rejections are invitations to love yourself a bit more.

Nothing worth having comes easily. Nothing worth having can be held without gratitude, respect and humility.

Finish your food or you won’t get any dessert later.

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.

People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.

The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.