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

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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

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In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

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

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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

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

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