Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.