Quotes from Anne Wilson Schaef

We learned our lessons well, and now we have the opportunity to break the intergenerational chain of workaholism. We have a chance to be different. We have choices. LET ME NOTICE today how many times I use work as an excuse for my inhuman behavior.

we miss the opportunity to marvel at our wonders because we have so much set up still to do that what we have done pales into insignificance in relation to what is (always!) yet to be done. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. TODAY is awareness day for what I have accomplished. Celebrations may be in order.

The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what do we need to do to learn from our experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over, and move on?

Change is the manifestation of our ability to grow and become. When it occurs in those nearest and dearest to us it is an opportunity for celebration. When it happens in ourselves, it allows us to share ourselves on a new level. When we try to protect others from the awareness of our changes, we are being dishonest. No one can care for who we are unless they know who we are.

ONE WHO HAS been chosen for friendship by an animal is a lucky person indeed.

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

ALL OF US are afraid sometimes, that's human. When our life is ruled by fear, that's obsession.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Healthy people live with their world.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.