Shit You Should Know. You're Welcome.

Like I said in my intro Blog, I'm pretty interested in the genre of self help. I'm going to use this blog post as an opportunity to share some quotes and a brief synopsis of some of the more interesting things that I have learned about life, love, and happiness. Please read it. You'll be glad you did, I promise!

**Warning: These are totally random and from a few different very awesome books. If you want to know exactly where any of it came from feel free to ask.**

¶-"It's impossible to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law."(Meaning that breaking a law or a rule doesn't devalue it at all, it only devalues you.)

¶-"Centering your life on another doesn't show that you love them, it only shows that you're dependent on them." (Dependence is the opposite of independence, and independence is what makes you a strong person.)

¶-"Just because you like to lead doesn't mean he wants to dance. Some traditions are born of nature and last throughout time for a reason." ( This one answers the questions of why it isn't ok for a girl to make the first move when she likes a guy)

¶-"The best revenge is not anger, but emotional distance, as quickly as possible."( This is true because if you're mad at someone then they still have some control of you and your emotions, and they still have the power)

¶-"Unless he's all yours, he's still hers."

¶-"By staying with someone who's not that in to you you're ensuring that you're never going to find one that is."

¶-"We are not our feelings, we are not our moods. The very fact that we can think about these things is what separates us from the animals."

¶-"Freedom comes between stimulus and response."

¶-"As human beings we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate our feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen."

¶-"By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others little by little our honor becomes greater than our moods."

¶-"Real change occurs when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing."

¶-"It's not love that hurts. It's the infatuation that we so blindly and foolishly accept as love that hurts. True love never has to hurt."

¶-"Love is a verb. It's something that you do. The sacrifices you make, the giving of self. Love is a value that is actualized by loving actions."