Rick Cormier Quotes

Every life can be experienced from the point of view of the victim or the survivor. Life is a roller coaster. Good and bad things are going to happen regardless of what we think, how we feel or what we do. “Happiness” isn't a destination. It's a way of travel. I have no real control over the big events of my life. I can only hope to control my perception, my attitude and my reactions.

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

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Love is how you treat someone.

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

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

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

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.

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