The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

It is true that you get what you tolerate.