
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
– David W Earle
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- Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin. – David W Earle
- The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others. – David W Earle
- Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families. – David W Earle
- Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits. – Farshad Asl
- Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going. – Chris Matakas
- We first make our habits, then our habits make us. – John Dryden
- Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely…we all have a choice in life. – Mimi Jenkins
- Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits — this is how we EAT folks! This is how it’s done! – Nancy S Mure
- Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence. – David W Earle
- If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change. – David W Earle
- Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved. – David W Earle
- Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy – David W Earle
- Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted negative stimulus. – Aditya Ajmera
- I don’t mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
- I function best when dysfunctional… – Guy R Vestal
- In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist. – Minae Mizumura
- In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller. – Angelos Michalopoulos
- Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. – bell hooks
- Adorably dysfunctional twenty-something seeks handsome veterinarian. Serious offers only. – RS Grey
- I don’t mind the term functional medicine — I suppose it’s better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
- We’re only five years apart,- I said defiantly. -œIf you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal. – Heather Heffner
- The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you. – David W Earle
- Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen. – David W Earle
- Being real is being true to you. – David W Earle
- We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, -œThis is who I am-¦and I am okay.- This is simple-¦not easy. – David W Earle
- Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits. – David W Earle
- Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family. – David W Earle
- When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent. – David W Earle
- If no one has boundaries-¦how can there be any transgression? – David W Earle
- When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned. – David W Earle
- Life is a learning experience and this is a very peaceful method of accepting the reality you face-¦-What will I learn? – David W Earle
- People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions. – David W Earle
- The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves. – David W Earle
- When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. – David W Earle
- We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of -œjust kidding. – David W Earle
- People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions. – David W Earle
- If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door. – David W Earle
- For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. – David W Earle
- I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization – simple but explosive. – David W Earle
- They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love. – David W Earle