Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, ” the woman said. “I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.