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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There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

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

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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

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Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

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I am me and I am okay.

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

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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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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

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