The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

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

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

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

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

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The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.

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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

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