- “In the mid 1960s, my late mentor and the Father of Strengths Psychology, Don Clifton, realized that we already had countless “languages” for describing what’s wrong with people. In addition to the informal labels used by the people around us, the field of psychology has the DSM-IV, a manual of disorders described by one leading psychologist as “a bloated catalogue of what’s wrong with people.”” StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath) Kindle Location 238-41
- “When we are little, we learn how to feel about ourselves and about life by the reactions of the adults around us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
- “If we were to take a three-year-old child and put him in the middle of the room, and you and I were to start yelling at the child, telling him how stupid he was, how he could never do anything right, how he should do this, and shouldn’t do that, and look at the mess he made; and maybe hit him a few times, we would end up with a frightened little child who sits docilely in the corner, or who tears up the place. The child will go one of these two ways, but we will never know the potential of that child. If we take the same little child and tell him how much we love him, how much we care, that we love the way he looks and love how bright and clever he is, that we love the way he does things, and that it’s okay for him to make mistakes as he learns — and that we will always be there for him no matter what — then the potential that comes out of that child will blow your mind!” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 28
- “It is imperative for our freedom to understand that our parents were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 29
- ““Don’t trust strangers” may be good advice for a small child, but for an adult, to continue this belief will only create isolation and loneliness.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 35
- “Better questions to ask are: “Is it true for me now?” “Where did that belief come from?” “Do I still believe it because a first grade teacher told me that over and over?” “Would I be better off if I dropped that belief?” Beliefs that “Boys don’t cry,” and “Girls don’t climb trees,” create men who hide their feelings and women who are afraid to be physical.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 35
- “You need to very gently and patiently unravel the knots. Be gentle and patient with yourself as you untangle your own mental knots.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 58
- “Almost all of our programming, both negative and positive, was accepted by us by the time we were three years old.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 61
- “I now realize that I have created this condition, and I am now willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that is responsible for this condition.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 65