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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.

Appreciate Judging Love You

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Breaths Communication

There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

Freedom Risk Thinking

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.

Break Up Inspirational Life

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

Bases Differences Together

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Excited Inspire Want

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Appreciation Family Motivational

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Being Yourself Life Positive Thinking

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

Events Important Response

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Inspirational Love Marriage

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Believe Heard Love

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Certainty Misery People

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Communication Issues Skills

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Children Expression Self Worth

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

Deeper Problem Symptoms

The message sent is not always the message received.

Messages

The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.

Mean Negative Experiences Opportunity

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

Commitment Jobs Successful

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Balance Fit Taste

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

People Trying Tunes