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Seedthoughts
Significant Others: How do I relate to the most important persons in my life?

1. Everybody comes from a crazy family --Kate Nelligan
2. Our lives may be less determined by our childhood than by the way we have learned to imagine our childhood. --James Hillman
3. Seeing ourselves as victims of our childhood makes us prisoners of the past and erodes our responsibility. All successful therapy has two thing in common: It is forward looking and it requires assuming responsibility.
   --Martin Seligman
4. Pretend you are your father or mother and write a short composition on "The difficulties I had in raising my child." --Martin Shepard
5. Life among siblings is like living in the nude, psychologically speaking.
   --James Bossard & Eleanor Boll
6. Before you marry, keep both eyes open; after marriage, shut one.
   --Jamaican saying
7. I believe we should all wise up and recognize that a marriage is a small business and that married couples are business partners.
   --David Hopkinson, clinical psychologist
8. Fidelity is expressed in a [marital] relationship when each is aware that their relationship has priority over all other matters. --Clayton Barbeau
9. The first half of our childhood is spoiled by our parents and the second half by our children. --anonymous cynic
10. When you have children, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. --Japanese saying
11. It takes a ten thousand cups of coffee to create a crony. --Abe Arkoff
12. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. --Ann Landers
13. We mark with light in our memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we inly were. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. If the dead be truly dead, why should they still be walking in my heart?
    --Winnenap, Shoshone medicine man

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