We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes...
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
The oppposite of Love is not Hate – it’s apathy.
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.
I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
Catch the beauty of the moment!
It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.
Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
A life without passion is not living, it’s merely existing.
To that there is an answer.
Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.