favorite sayings and psychobable: part two

here's part two of the handout. enjoy! this handout could be MUCH longer. there's so many great things said by so many people. this is only to wet your whistle! :) (funny, i noticed i changed this second part to lowercase but the first part is in uppercase because it's copied from the original; everything i've ever done since the dawn of my e-mail life has been lowercase, fyi.)

14. you cannot impart experience. (friend michelle’s answer to my question of why our children won’t just take our word for it when we try to impart wisdom gained from our experiences.)

15. a man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.  Mark Twain.

16. anxiety is not so much about what we are feeling (anxious) as much as it is what we are not expressing.

17. the body says what words cannot.  martha graham.

18. if he’ll (the married man) do it with you (the other woman), he’ll do it to you. dr. phil.

19. i’d rather be healthy alone, than sick with somebody else. dr. phil.

20. we should not be ashamed to discuss what God was not ashamed to create (sex)! (howard hendrix said this i think?)

21. denial ain’t just a river in egypt!

22. if you don’t go within, you go without.  wynona judd, recovering from addictions, including compulsive overeating.

23. 3 C’s from alanon:  i didn’t cause it (whatever problem or person you are trying to fix).  i can’t control it. i can’t cure it.

24. alanon saying:  the argument begins with my reply.

25. another: (on the need for support) The mind is a dangerous place – don’t go into it by yourself!

26. yet another.  “no.” is a complete sentence.

27. love is one product you don’t sell by giving away free samples.

28. the Bible says it is the truth that sets you free so find the lie and disown it since you are a child of God.  college friend said this to my daughter.

29. be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

30. if you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you've always gotten!  (this is a variation on doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results = insanity.)