Laura C. Schlessinger Quotes

#1. Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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#2. Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before!

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#3. You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something
that is the essence of soul-searching.

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#4. There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell

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#5. The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

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#6. Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

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#7. Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

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#8. Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself.

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#9. So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

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#10. It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.

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#11. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases
and now you're in the mommy phase.

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#12. The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

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#13. Baking bread is as glorious as planting flowers, as doing a cardiac bypass, as teaching a child to read.

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#14. Men and women are created differently, equal in value, but different.

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#15. Courage is not the lack of fear, it is fear plus action.

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#16. A lousy relationship is never better than no relationship at all.

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#17. We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

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#18. You need to be a "good-enough mom"
attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes.

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#19. Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

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#20. Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.

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#21. How you feel should be secondary to the good you can do.

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#22. The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

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