I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

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It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

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We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

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Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

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