Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

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.

Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world ‘as it is’.

Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.