 Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. Topics: Anger |
| Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. |
| When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. |
| Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. |
| Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. |
| We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. |
| Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self. |
| Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. |
| I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. |
| Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. |
| My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. |
| The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. |
| I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. |
| I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. |
| No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. |
| At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture. |
| The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. |
| If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. |
| I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it. |
| Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. |
