Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.
Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
We can choose the attitude that says, I have been wronged. People have hurt me, but with the help of God, I am going to learn how to return good for evil, and I am going to make a difference in this world.
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.
By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.
Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
Humans can think inhuman thoughts.