Harville Hendrix
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
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Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
There is time for everything.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
To infinity and beyond !
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Sanctuary !
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Things do not change we change.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Ideas... they have the power
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
There's no crying in baseball !
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
I want to be alone.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Love is letting go of fear.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Hard work pays off.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You make me want to be a better man.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.