Harriet Lerner Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• We begin to change the dynamic of our relationships as we are able to share our reactions to others without holding them responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices & actions. We are responsible for our own behavior and we are not responsible for other people's reactions; nor are they responsible for ours.

  Harriet Lerner

  People, Choices, Feelings

• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Responsibility, Self

• Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

  Harriet Lerner

  Self Esteem, People, Feelings

• Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

  Harriet Lerner

  Motherhood, Feelings, Hazards

  "Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life". Book by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, 1996.

• Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.

  Harriet Lerner

  Integrity, Heart, Responsibility

  Source: www.elle.com

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