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

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

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

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

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

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.