Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

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.

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

At the risk of hurting your feelings, I think you should know that some kisses are more special than others.

Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it's easy - you simply look under the kilt, and if it's a quarter-pounder, you know it's a McDonald's.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.