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

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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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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

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

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

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