Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Joyce BrothersRead
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Interpretation
Trusting your intuition can lead to valuable insights and decisions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of trusting one's instincts or gut feelings, which are often informed by subconscious knowledge and past experiences. Joyce Brothers suggests that our intuition can serve as a powerful guide, as it is rooted in facts and information that we might not be consciously aware of.
In practice
In a motivational speech about decision-making, one might say, 'As Joyce Brothers wisely noted, trust your hunches.'
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.
Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259
Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.
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