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

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 message sent is not always the message received.

I am me and I am okay.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty