Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.