If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.

I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

My later years are my treasure years.

Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.

To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something, and look at it in a new, positive way.