Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

The devil is a professional in destroying lives, but the problem is that people themselves allow him to destroy their lives

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! ❤ #rebelheart

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.