When we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, we are practicing self-assertiveness. -Nathaniel Branden.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

We’re not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.