Please forgive me.
I forgive you.
Thank you.
I love you.
These four simple statements are powerful tools for improving your relationships and your life. As a doctor caring for seriously ill patients for nearly 15 years of emergency medicine practice and more than 25 years in hospice and palliative care, I have taught hundreds of patients who were facing life's end, when suffering can be profound, to say the Four Things. But the Four Things apply at any time. Comprising just eleven words, these four short sentences carry the core of wisdom of what people who are dying have taught me about what matters most in life.
— Ira Byock, The Four Things That Matter Most