Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.