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01Undated

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

Lisa Firestone / quote

02Undated

We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.

Lisa Firestone / quote

03Undated

We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification. . . Many people who suffered deprivation in childhood continue to accept substitute gratifications in the forms of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, television, video games, overwork, and other activities that distract them from experiencing their real lives.

Lisa Firestone / quote

04Undated

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

Lisa Firestone / quote

05Undated

A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

Lisa Firestone / quote

06Undated

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

Lisa Firestone / quote

07Undated

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

Lisa Firestone / quote

08Undated

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

Lisa Firestone / quote

09Undated

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

Lisa Firestone / quote