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.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

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.