It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained.
Communication works for those who work at it.
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.