I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

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

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.