Rick Cormier Quotes

Uncommon people take longer to find love because they need uncommon partners.

We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -This is to have succeeded.” ~Bessie Anderson Stanley

Friends are God's way of apologizing for our families.

Love is how you treat someone.

How we each imagine God says more about us than it does about gods.

because you didn't give him any cookies. All abusers want you to believe that you can stop the abuse by changing yourself.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. ~Carl Jung

"There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.

In an unhealthy relationship with control issues, the unspoken attitude is, “Here is perfect (hand held high) and here is you (hand held low). I'm going to devote my time and energy to pointing out the difference.

Grad school was a surprise. I had no idea I'd be given a week to read four books at a time. No one warned me that I would be required to write 10- to 25-page papers plus a two-page paper for each class while simultaneously working on my master's thesis. For nearly two years. I saw my wife and son mostly on weekends.

The fears you avoid become stronger. The fears you confront become weaker while you get stronger.

Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.

We often get anxious about things that are important to us.

But they are experts at using their victim's need for attention and affection to manipulate them. It's important to understand that, while abusers are incapable of loving others, they're incapable of loving themselves, also. Abusers need to feel superior. They will obsessively find fault, teach, correct and criticize.