The Older I Get, The More Convinced

And Those Handmade Presents That Children Often Bring Home From School: They Have So Much Value! The Value Is That The Child Put Whatever He Or She Could Into Making Them. The Way We Parents Respond To The Giving Of Such Gifts Is Very Important. To The Child The Gift Is Really Self, And They Want So Much For Their Selves To Be Acceptable, To Be Loved.

Honesty Is Often Very Hard. The Truth Is Often Painful. But The Freedom It Can Bring Is Worth The Trying.

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 Greatest Gift That You Can Give Another Person Is To Gracefully Receive Whatever It Is That They Want To Give Us.

It's Not The Honors And The Prizes And The Fancy Outsides Of Life Which Ultimately Nourish Our Souls. It's The Knowing That We Can Be Trusted, That We Never Have To Fear The Truth, That The Bedrock Of Our Very Being Is Good Stuff.