The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

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.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.