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“You know,” I said, “I’m asking you about friendships, and you’re answering about ministries. They’re not the same thing.” She had never considered the difference. Her concept of friendship was to find people with needs and throw herself into a relationship with them. She didn’t know how to ask for things for herself.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken.
John Steinbeck • The Grapes of Wrath
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well: The Million Copy Bestseller (Penguin Life)
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In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
“You know, I don’t think she ever lost her shit around her white friends.” “Yeah, well,” Erin said ruefully, “we were family.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!’
J. R. R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings: The classic fantasy masterpiece
You need the wisdom to know what is you and what is not you. Pray for the wisdom to know the difference between what you have the power to change and what you do not.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
For example, when Paul sets boundaries on Meredith’s demands, he forces her to become more independent.