Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)