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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Authenticity Courage Find Lives
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Anger Capable Carry Heart
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Attention Because Commitment Energy
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Always Time Create Difficult
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Age Because Circumstances Life
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

About Anything Change Control
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Always Bless Difference Giver
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Ability Everything Gift Greatest
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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us
Allow People Limited Perception
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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.

Love Clutching Appreciate Judging
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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.

Family Microcosm World Understand
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We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

Together Basis Similarities Grow
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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 You Get
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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.

Feeling Flourish Atmosphere Individual
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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 See Hear Feel
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
Communication Relationships Life Breath
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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Life Response Important Event
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

People Certainty Uncertainty Misery
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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 Greatest Conceive Heard
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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.

Words Expression Action Gesture
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The message sent is not always the message received
Message Sent Received
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

Ourselves Basic Miracles
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor

Parent Teach School
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Communication Human Largest Factor
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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Talked Live Compulsion Have
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I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what contex.

People Change Bones Cell
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
People Emotional Jail Living
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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Adolescents Monster People Adult
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Played Development Result
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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
Life Vulnerability Defense Face
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Believe Learn
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
Problem Human being Bigest
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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

Life Notice Dies
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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Problems Coping
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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

Appreciate Judging Invading
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

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

Problem Symptom Deeper Never
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
I Me
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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

Therapist Companion Wisdom
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It is okay for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
Me Okay Feel Angry
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Parent Little Given
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Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

You Life Way Cope
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Taste Swallow Fits
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I am me and I am okay.
I Am Okay
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

Gift Hear Touch Person
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Every Morning Determination Satisfaction
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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Threaten Promise Convenient Pay
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Books Right Brain Dead
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Word Procrastination Language
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