Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
Stephanie DowrickIt is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Stephanie DowrickImagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.
Stephanie DowrickHow we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.
Stephanie DowrickIt should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234
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