We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
The connections we make in the course of a life–maybe that’s what heaven is.
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)
You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
It’s the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest … and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
I’m fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of ‘powerlessness.’ Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.