Integrity Is Never Painless.

America's Greatest Sin Is The Refusal To Delay Gratification.

The Problem Of Unmet Expectations In Marriage Is Primarily A Problem Of Stereotyping. Each And Every Human Being On This Planet Is A Unique Person. Since Marriage Is Inevitably A Relationship Between Two Unique People, No One Marriage Is Going To Be Exactly Like Any Other. Yet We Tend To Wed With Explicit Visions Of What A “good” Marriage Ought To Be Like. Then We Suffer Enormously From Trying To Force The Relationship To Fit The Stereotype And From The Neurotic Guilt And Anger We Experience When We Fail To Pull It Off.

Since [narcissists] Deep Down, Feel Themselves To Be Faultless, It Is Inevitable That When They Are In Conflict With The World They Will Invariably Perceive The Conflict As The World's Fault. Since They Must Deny Their Own Badness, They Must Perceive Others As Bad. They Project Their Own Evil Onto The World. They Never Think Of Themselves As Evil, On The Other Hand, They Consequently See Much Evil In Others.

The Life Of Wisdom Must Be A Life Of Contemplation Combined With Action.

When We Love Someone Our Love Becomes Demonstrable Or Real Only Through Our Exertion - Through The Fact That For That Someone (or For Ourself) We Take An Extra Step Or Walk An Extra Mile. Love Is Not Effortless. To The Contrary, Love Is Effortful.