We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.