Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell. - Stephen Covey

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

Reactive people are also affected by their social environment, by the “social weather.” When people treat them well, they feel well; when people don’t, they become defensive or protective. Reactive people build their emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them.