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"It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground."
"I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later."
"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."
"Taste everything, but swallow only what fits."
"I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies."
"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 context."
"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."
"I am me and I am okay."
"No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's."
"Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain."
"Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals."
"You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive."
"Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter."
"A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole."
"My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology."
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
"Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy."