To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?