The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
I just look at a bagel and my ass gets bigger!
At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up
For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.
Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.
Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.