Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes

• Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy, happiness, and fulfillment. So go ahead and feel the fear. Then summon the courage to follow your dreams anyway.

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  Steve Pavlina

  Dream   Monday   Adventure  

  "The Courage to Live Consciously". www.stevepavlina.com. October 27, 2004.

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• As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

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  Bruce H. Lipton

  Brother   Children   Home  

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• Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

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  Stefan Molyneux

  Rap   People   Soul  

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• Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

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  Peter R. Orszag

  Thinking   Goes On   Faster  

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• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

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  Peter Thiel

  Zero   Hollywood   Valleys  

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• It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

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  Kristin Chenoweth

  Tough Love   Dysfunctional Relationship   Shows  

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.

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  John Bush

  Cat   Lasts   Chance  

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