Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

— Shannon L. Alder

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.

— Shannon L. Alder

Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what’s happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it’s out of their control.

— Chris Dietzel

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say 'This foolishness') any time I need to.

— Flora Rheta Schreiber