Jerry Greenwald Quotes (13 Quotes)

Toughness is a valuable human attribute. The nourishing person can be very tough when the need arises, but he can do so without losing his warm, caring, and loving qualities.

Taking risks means reaching out in spite of fears and anxieties. We cannot expect our anxieties to just disappear. Only after we experience reaching out are anxieties and fears apt to diminish.

Intimate relating means avoiding using our resources to manipulate the other person.

Nourishing attitudes are the foundation for a nourishing relationship.

To refuse to let go of the past is to deny the natural process of change that is a function of every living organism.

Human functioning that is dominated by past experience is almost invariably toxic.

Routine and unvarying human behavior deadens us. To be alive involves variation in attitudes and behavior patterns.

Greediness is greediness, no matter how justified or sophisticated. It wears out the 'feeder.'

Relating to another on an intimate level means really listening with all ones senses. Only in this way can one know the other person as he is.

In a nourishing relationship, compromise is a foregone conclusion.

Each person must make commitments that are restricting to his present freedom. No one gets everything his waynor does anyone ever really give up wanting it.

We all respond to those who are nourishing, and genuinely nourishing people will not be lonely.

The prime source of nourishing interaction is authentic, intimate relating. Genuine relating is responding to the other and to his needs.