What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.

We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.