Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

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

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.