“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting a stop to it.”— bell hooks
“It is not your job to make others happy. It is your job to be happy and to let others be happy in their own way.”— Martha Beck
“Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.”— Melody Beattie
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”— Virginia Satir
“Detachment is not about not caring. It's about caring enough to allow another person to have his or her own experience, without trying to control it.”— Melody Beattie
“I was told I had to lose weight for a role. And I went, 'Okay,' and I lost the weight. But it really affected me, and now I won't do it.”— Gemma Arterton
“There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”— Donella Meadows