Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessingeris an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 January 1947
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs but will wreak havoc with your self-esteem, respect from others, and quality of life.
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.
When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.
You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.