Steve Voisey

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Love is best demonstrated by the willingness to enter another person’s world. This is done by making their priorities your priorities at regular intervals.

Teaching is only half the task of training – inspiration is the rest. Training that reduces enthusiasm for the topic or damages confidence is a liability rather than an asset.

Children can cope with what they can understand. Explanations are more protective than keeping them in ignorance, and leaving them to guess for themselves.

Maybe I’m in the black. Maybe I’m on my knees. Maybe I’m in the gap between the two trapeze.

People who love cigarettes must one day discover that cigarettes hate people.”
David Riddel

When a wife over-functions a man will under-function to compensate. She must step back from assuming too much responsibility for others before her help becomes resented.

Own your own life by choosing to do what you have to do, and wherever you are, be there 100%. (Nobody respects a resentful martyr.)

The feelings you feel outside your comfort zone will be identified as threatening or exhilarating depending on how your parents labelled them at your first experience.