If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
It's entirely in your power to regulate the degree to which you peel back the layers of your personality when you disclose yourself to someone. You can keep that person on the surface, or you can allow her to penetrate, by degrees or directly, to the core.
Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.
Benjamin E. Mays
Jan Swammerdam
Friedrich Wohler
Jamie Waylett
Otto Graham
Shawn Ashmore
Billy Wilder
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
EunB
Tahar Djaout
Josh Groban
Eddie Montgomery
