Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.