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Power Thought on Shame

Tracy Phaup — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:28:59 +0000

As a good Irish Catholic, Flick had been raised with shame, like a cucumber pickled in vinegar and spice. She knew what it was like to be so saturated by it so completely that it was almost impossible tell where you ended and guilt began. In fact, her childhood been filled with large, [...]

Power Thought on Perseverance

Tracy Phaup — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:27:44 +0000

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. Lao Tzu Quotes Share on Facebook

Power Thought on Graduating Life

Tracy Phaup — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:26:56 +0000

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Share on Facebook

Power Thought on Love

Tracy Phaup — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:25:38 +0000

You see, the truth is no one ever really falls in love with anyone but themselves. Love is a mirror, a reflective surface projecting who we wish we were. What we’re all waiting for is someone to come along who will show us something new about ourselves that we can adore. And [...]

Power Thought on Husbands

Tracy Phaup — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:24:03 +0000

What husbands don’t know about their own wives is a lot! Often they insist their wives are angry and sullen when obviously they’re hurt and rejected or they have tastes that, with a little probing, I discover are theirs, not the wife’s at all. Or sometimes, when I ask what their wife really [...]

Power Thought on Being Thrown Into Life

Tracy Phaup — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:22:46 +0000

There are all sorts of things that love can’t conquer. Natural disasters, for example, and illness; cruel twists of fate; even simple human nature can very easily trump it every time. It wasn’t meant to provide immunity from fate or grief or pain. In fact, so often it’s the cause, isn’t it? [...]

Power Thought on Male Insecurity

Tracy Phaup — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:19:33 +0000

I can handle a world where I have to walk on eggshells around women who are terminally insecure for no particular reason no matter what their age, weight, height, hair color – you name it! But to live in a world where men are just the same, just as ridiculous! No, I say! [...]

Power Thought on Love

Tracy Phaup — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:18:35 +0000

Love has no claims. Love has no expectations. Most of us were raised to become prostitutes. We have the illusion that with good behavior, good grades, lots of awards, pretty clothes, nice smiles, we can buy love. How many ifs were you raised with! I love you if you make it through high school. I [...]

Power Thought on Mediocrity

Tracy Phaup — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:09:41 +0000

What is distasteful is the way we hide behind our own sterile mediocrity and take pleasure in the failings of someone who at least had the courage to try. Kathleen Tessaro Quotes Share on Facebook

Power Thought on Heartbreak

Tracy Phaup — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:39 +0000

It’s the way of the world; the nature of the thing. To sit out on love because you’ve been devastated is just bad manners. It’s like refusing to play any party games because it’s not your birthday and you don’t get to keep the presents. Kathleen Tessaro Quotes Share on Facebook