"Don't assume
that it's too late to
get involved."
M. Schwartz

"Learn to forgive yourself
and forgive others."
M. Schwartz

"Accept the past as past,
without denying or discarding it."
M. Schwartz

"Accept what you are
able to do and
what you are not able to do."
M. Schwartz

"Since love is work,
the essence of
non-love is laziness."
M. S. Peck

"Romantic love is effortless,
and couples are frequently reluctant to
shoulder the effort and dicipline
of true love and listening.
But when and if they finally do,
the results are superbly gratifying."
M. S. Peck

"Yet true listening can occur only
when time is set aside for it and
conditions are supporting of it."
M. S. Peck

"...teach them how to listen."
M. S. Peck

"...since true listening involves bracketing,
a setting aside of the self,
it also temporarilyinvolves a total acceptance of the other."
M. S. Peck

"True listening, total concentration on the other,
is always a manifestation of love."
M. S. Peck

"Value creates value,
love begets love."
M. S. Peck

"The need for one's parents to listen is never outgrown."
M. S. Peck

"...the more children feel valuable,
the more they will begin to
says things of value.
They will rise to your expectation."
M. S. Peck

"There is no better and ultimately no other way to
teach your children that they are valuable people
than by valuing them."
M. S. Peck

"If you are not willing to put aside everything,
including your own worries and preoccupations for a time,
then you are not willing to truly listen."
M. S. Peck

"...nothing more can be attempted than to establish
the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road."
Unknown

"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart.
There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel looking, looking breathlessly."
C. Castaneda quoting Don Juan Matu

"The twilight is the crack between worlds."
C. Castaneda quoting Don Juan Matu

"Anthropology has taught us that the world is differently defined in different places.
It is not only that people have different customs;
it is not only that people believe in different gods
and expect different post-mortem fates.
It is rather, that the worlds of different people have different shapes."
C. Castaneda

"You cannot truly listen to anyone
and do anything else at the same time."
M. S. Peck

"For true listening,
no matter how brief,
requires tremendous effort."
M. S. Peck

"Love, as we shall see,
again and again,
is invariably a two-way street,
a reciprocal phenomenon
whereby the receiver also gives
and the giver also receives."
M. S. Peck

"Listening well is an exercise of attention
and by necessity hard work.
It is because they do not realize this
or because they are not willing
to do the work that
most people do not listen well."
M. S. Peck

"By far the most common and important way in which
we can exercise our attention is by listening."
M. S. Peck

"When we love another
we give him or her our attention;
we attend to that person's growth."
M. S. Peck

"Love then is a form of work or a form of courage."
M. S. Peck

"Trying the Empty Nothing,
and demanding something;
Banging the Silent Zero,
in search of sound."
Lu Chi

"Comfort lies in the fact that
the first step is taken."
L. Buscaglia

"To master an art requires time,
the understanding of and sensitivity
for the materials necessary,
and extreme patience while
the basic skills are being learned.
It includes the willingness to experiment,
to fail, to risk,
to know frustration and even despair
before one can abandon learned,
parroted techniques and
project oneself fully
in self-creation.

To be an artist of life
requires no less."
L. Buscaglia

"Your personhood is real.
It is your most valuable possession."
L. Buscaglia

"The only way to to win,
sometimes,
is to surrender."
R. Bach

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato

"For a man to conquer himself
is the first and noblest of all victories."
Plato

"Good actions give strength to ourselves
and inspire good actions in others."
Plato