American author, philosopher
Just because your friends have not told you the hard truth doesn’t mean it’s not true. It probably means you’re not open to hearing it. – Alan Robert Neal
Conversations and relationships fail whenever someone thinks that being right is more important than what is right. – Alan Robert Neal
Thanks to political correctness, we have gone from recognizing shades of gray (respecting the simultaneous legitimacy of multiple perspectives), past black-or-white (which purports that one position is 100% correct while the other is 100% wrong), to now a single color (which punishes anyone who believes there even is another point of view). – Alan Robert Neal
We incrementally destroy our society every time we agree that abnormal is normal or that normal is special. – Alan Robert Neal
A point of view can be the most limiting view of all. – Alan Robert Neal
When your pain becomes someone else’s pain, you’re being loved. When your pain becomes someone else’s pain in the a**, you’re being tolerated. – Alan Robert Neal
We cannot accurately assess ourselves based solely on our own perceptions. – Alan Robert Neal
If you’re a walking statement in how you speak, dress, and demand attention, the message you’re conveying is that you’re not enough. – Alan Robert Neal
The older you get, the less you begrudge performing life’s daily redundancies, and the more you appreciate that you still can. – Alan Robert Neal
The benefit of not being in control is being free of the burden to be right. – Alan Robert Neal
More times than not, reality doesn’t care what I think. – Alan Robert Neal
The sad consequence of staunchly advocating someone’s emotional health is that when they’re not up to the task of fighting their demons, they treat you as the disease. – Alan Robert Neal
She kept returning to her internal well of common sense, but not only was it dry, it was never a well. – Alan Robert Neal
Rationalization, fallacy, and procrastination are the cornerstones of self-induced regret. – Alan Robert Neal
Habitually playing the victim is the perfect excuse to habitually victimize someone else. – Alan Robert Neal
“If I had what I want, I wouldn’t be so desperate…” is really “If I wasn’t so desperate, I might have what I want.” – Alan Robert Neal
I repeatedly failed at having him choose reality over delusion. Continued attempts would have been abusive to him, while witnessing his decline would have been abusing myself. The kindest choice was to step away and begin loving him from afar. – Alan Robert Neal
We are what we know, even when we don’t know who we are. We are affected by our past, even when we have left it unexplored. We can go only so far not recognizing from where we have come. – Alan Robert Neal
Candy-coating the truth, to make everyone feel good, deadens people to reality. Dearth of reality melts a society. – Alan Robert Neal
As an observer of his marriage, I knew the price he’d pay for indulging his wife’s insanity. As a participant, he knew the price he’d pay if he didn’t. – Alan Robert Neal
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