We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.