Democracy is being allowed to vote for the Capitalist Political Dictator Candidate you dislike least or believe will do the least amount of damage..

Politics — I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while Nature, Creator of All, is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"

Con-servatives, Fib-erals, and Poli-tics.

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites".

The CON-servatives are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Fib-erals are the party that says government doesn't work; and, then they get elected; and prove it.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
A Con-servative is also a man or a woman who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. However, their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving

QUOTES OF MARK (SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) TWAIN, (1835-1910)

MARK (SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) TWAIN

• Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.
• When in doubt, tell the truth.
•  In the United States of America, truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
•  Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all, has to make sense.
•  A good lie will have travelled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. 
• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
•  You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
•  I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
•  Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, ... it doesn't matter.
•  A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. 
• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
•  Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
•  When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
•  We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
•  The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
•  We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any other in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding 12 everyday men who don't know anything and can't read.
•  No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
• Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

LET US SO LIVE

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835-1910)

Famous Inspirational Quotes, To Remember, To Think About

Read through all these inspirational quotations and let them speak to you. In this day and time; when we wear several hats at once, there's much chaos and disorder surrounding our life, and distracting us from our real goals. You will be wanting to regain some peace, clarity, motivation, and inspiration.

Sometimes, it's simply not possible to hear of inspiring quotes from people living in our modern society. Instead, negativity prevail the air. People complain,and people moan, constantly, about their lives, and the state of the world. And we all need desperately to hear of some positive and inspirational messages.

Time passes very quickly, but you may find the courage, within you, to go after your desires. And when the the time comes for you to look back and your life, may you be deeply grateful that you've led a life that has purpose and meaning to you, as Mother Nature intended.

Famous quotations are popular because they contain great sayings. Here's a collection of famous quotes collected from great teachers and famous persons from different time periods.

Usually, quotes by famous people can be influential. Many of these quotes merit attention; therefore they continue to be used and re-quoted by various sources throughout the years.

The most meaningful and powerful quote there is, was, or ever will be was spoken through the mouth of a supposed fool.

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

--Shakespeare-Hamlet

Some hae meat and canna eat,

And some wad eat that want it;

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

And sae the Lord be thankit.

--Robert Burns

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing

--Oscar Wilde

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao-tzu

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. but above all, try something.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

--Thomas Edison

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always aim at complete harmony, of thought ,and word, and deed. Always aim at purity in your thought and everything will be well.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

--Abraham Lincoln

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them again on your way down.

--Jimmy Durante

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new will-power, with an advanced experience; that shall explain, and overlook the old.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do What you can, with what you have, where you are.

--Theodore Roosevelt

Do not say you you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson , and Albert Einstein.

--H. Jackson Brown

Even if you're on the right track, You'll get run over if you just sit there.

--Will Rogers

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

--Alfred North Whitehead

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

--Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living,

 By what we get;

But we make a life,

By what we give.

--Winston Churchill

If you have bult castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

--Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what ou desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.

--George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--Aristotle

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

--Walt Disney

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

--Mark twain

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

--Confucius

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

--Aristotle

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.

--Oscar Wilde

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide our sources.

--Albert Einstein

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

--Samuel Johnson

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics run it, and are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

--Bertrand Russell

While we are postponing, life speeds by.--Seneca

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Ever day we ought to review our direction and purpose, saying to ourselves; This day let me make a sound beginning, for  make a sound beginning, for what we do hitherto is naught.
--Thomas A. Kempis

A man's/woman's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
--Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee can't fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that; so it goes on flying anyway.
--Mary Kay Ash

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
--Henry David Thoreau

Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature sympathise with a friend's success.
--Oscar Wilde

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
--Marian Anderson

This above all else: To thine own self be true.
--Shakespeare

Beauty, truth, friendship love, creation--these are great values of life. We can't prove them, or truly explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
--Jesse Herman Holmes

Character may be manifested in the  great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
--Philips Brooks


Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as faaar as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember you  can achieve.
--Mary Kay Ash

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
--Dr. Dale Turner

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
--Voltaire

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
--David Seabury

Everyond who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
--Nolan Bushnell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and  try to follow where they lead.
--Louisa May Alcott

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
--Will Rogers

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
--Margaret B. Runbeck

Happy are those that dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
--Leon J. Suenes

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
--Golda Meir

Right or wrong, success or failure, good or evil, exist only in the eyes of the beholder. One Man's heaven is another Man's Hell.
--Author Unknown

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
--Agatha Christie

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
--Louisa May Alcott

I've learned from experience, that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.
--Martha Washington

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
--Jonathan Winters

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
--Mary Pickford

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivness, selfishness, and fears.
--Glenn Clark

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
--Jonathan Winters

My advice to all aspiring actors and performers:Never act or perform, simply be.
--Spenser Tracy

In every person who comes near you, look for what is good, and strong; honour that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off lide dead leaves when their time comes.
--John Ruskin

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
--James Anthony Froude

Practise does not make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.
--Author Unknown

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
--Mabel Newcomber

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
--Scott Adams

He that would pass his declining years with honour and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he was once young.
--Joseph Addison

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
--Aeschylus

I sit beside my lonely fire, and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember, or courage to forget.
--Charles Hamilton Aide

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done; that will not be done unless you do it.
--Charles L. Allen

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is infinite. This is a very comforting thought-particulary for people who can never remember where they have left things.
--Woody Allen

Remember: it is ten times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.
--Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Remember this,-that very little is needed to make a happy life
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,-there, if one must speak out, the real man.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The general root of a superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
--Sir Francis Bacon

Always remember that striving and struggle always precede  success, even in the dictionary.
--Sarah Ban Breathable

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
--Maurice Beattie

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think--than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
--Bill Beatie

Every young man would do well to remember that all successfull business stands on the foundation of morality.
--Henry Ward  Beecher

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
--(Enogh) Arnold  Bennett

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.

--Antoine de Saint Exupery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

--William James

Whatever you create in your life; you must first create in your imagination.

The human brain can only act on the positive; it is incapable of acting on the expectation of a negative result. For example, a criminal never plans to fail, or get caught; he or she looks only at the positive, or wanted result of their deed.

On His Seventy-Fith Birthday-Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

I strove with none,--for none was worth my strife;

Nature I loved and next to Nature, Art.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life;

It sinks, and I am ready to depart

--Walter Savage Landor

Love, Quotes, To Remember and to Think About

We Seek It Here, 

We Seek It There,

 We Look For Love,

 Every Where!

We expect it to come to us, usually through another person. All our conditioning (The Bible, our culture, religion, schooling, society, and our peers) says it is something we “fall” into. And yet—and yet real love cannot be acquired, possessed, or accumulated. It cannot be known at all, when we think it comes from outside ourselves –for love is what we DO. The ultimate paradox is WE ARE IT. We are love. Each one of us is a source of love that has forgotten that love is what I am, what I do. Doesn’t feel right does it? That’s because it’s been so long wince we knew—if we ever did—and experienced ourselves in the true way.

And yet we all know that the deepest trust, faith—the purest love is known and expressed only when we give it, not take it. As we give (or show) love in whatever way is appropriate—without fear--, we we are the only ones to experience it first, on the way out. Falling into love is impossible. To do so is only infatuation, sexual attraction, or obsession with an external object which appears to fill the gap, the emptiness, in ourselves.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself-to laugh with me; but never because of me; to love life, to love him/her self, to love being loved. such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating system of the heart.

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. As the old song states "Love is a many splendored thing." Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!

--From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love.

--Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.

--Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

--Antoine de Saint-Exuperty

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet...

--Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

--Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength and beauty that brings music to our souls.

But to see her was to love her,

Love but her, and love forever.

--Robert Burns

Dance, and perform, as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth--for it is.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

--Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

--Eric Jong

Don't frown because you never know who might be  in love with your smile.

Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.

--Alison Mosher

Loving someone isn't always going to be easy,,Anger, tears laughter. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.

--Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!

Parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.

--William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here... it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

--Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the no-space between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up. Sarah Mimnaugh

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are, or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers, if two people are destined to be together.

--Julia Roberts

I have learned not to worry about love;

But to honour it's coming with all my heart.

--Alice Walker

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need.  You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.

--Baisa

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

--Ray Croft

I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.

--Hobbes

I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are, or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I love  you.

If I could give you only one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.

If I never met  you, I couldn't like you . If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will

I there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded--Maya Angelou

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.--Mother Teresa

In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.

--Janos Arany

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek

--French proverb

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

--Mignon Mclaughlin

In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

--Hans Nouwens

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

--Maya Angelou

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

--Oscar Wilde

Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.

--Author Unknown

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

--Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

--Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

--William Shakespeare

Love demands all and has a right to it.

--Beethoven

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

--Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time...made new.

Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

--Elbert Hubbard

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

--Katherine Hepburn

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

--anonymous

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.

--Lamar Cole

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

--author unknown

Love is a sighn from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

J. Ghetto

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Eurpides

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

--Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame once it is truly lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

--Kamila

Love is not something you look for,

Love is something you do and you must do it over and over again, honestly, till it takes root in your personal experience.

Love is smiling on the inside and and out

--Jennifer Williams

Love many things, for therin lies the true strength, and whowoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

--Vincent Van Gogh

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Woman have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

--Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved

Barbara Johnson

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

--Saint Augustine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me.. for I know love, I am loved by thee.

--Robert Browning

To Thine Own Self Be True

The most important words ever spoken

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Shakespeare-Hamlet

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. There ARE just two types of people in this world: Those with self-respect and those who never quite make it.

Self Respect

 • To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual not as a copy of some-thing or some-one else. 

• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich in myself, and not by borrowing or copying others. 

• They cannot take away self-respect if we do not give it to them. 

• We need to learn who we really are and then live with it. 

• A man who doesn’t respect himself can never really trust anyone else. 

• Without self-confidence, we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to ones true self. 

• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, as we are, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals man’s nature.

• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule, or scorn of others, rather than be false and incur my own abhorrence. 

• It is may be good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade. 

• To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. 

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. 

• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. 

• And as we let our OWN light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, or presence automatically liberates others. Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, your own heritage, if you are willing to peel away the layers of crap you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think. 

What is Friendship or Love?

I do not know if there has ever been another time in history when the terms love and friendship have been used as promiscuously as they are at present. We are told constantly that we must be "Friends" with and "LOVE" everyone. Leaders of religion, and other movements, declare that they "love" followers they have and will never meet. Enthusiasts of personal-growth workshops and encounter groups weekends emerge from their experiences announcing that they "love" all people everywhere. Most "Chat Line" and "Test" messages contain at least one LOL and most other correspondence will be closed with a Love You.

Just as currency, with the never ending demand for a growing economy, and higher wages, with more employee benefits, has less and less purchasing power or real value, so the words "Friend and Love" through an analogous process of inflation, through being used less and less discriminatively are progressively emptied of meaning. What then is friendship? Friendship, like love, by its very nature, entails a process of discrimination, of learning, of reaching out, of selection. Friendship-like love- is our response to what represents our highest values. Friendship like love is a response to distinctive characteristics possessed by some but not all. Other wise what would be the tribute of friendship or love? Why would we bother to say that someone is our friend or that we love someone? Really, if your friends or loved ones were to ask why you care for them, consider what their reaction would be if told, "Why shouldn't I call you my friend or say that I love you? All human beings are identical. Therefore, it doesn't make any difference whom I call friend or say that I love. So it might as well be you. Not very inspiring or uplifting is it? Friendship and love are very similar, because friendship is the first necessary step to love.Friendship and love are NOT feelings or emotions; both require a conscious effort in order to find a start and both require a continuing and sustained conscious effort in order to grow and develop into something worthwhile. Above all a friend must be someone you can communicate with and you must be able to do so freely, without any need to censor your thoughts, feelings, or emotions, for fear of offending a fragile ego. And you must never try to hide your passion for without passion, how can love, or friendship, ever grow or develop?

Nourishing the Soul

When I think of nourishing the soul, I think of nurturing the ability to respond positively to life- that is the ability to sustain passion for our interests, values, and projects. I believe that the worst of all spiritual defeats is to lose enthusiasm for life’s possibilities. Consider the case of romantic love. When two adults with significant spiritual and psychological affinities encounter each other, and IF THEY HAVE EVOLVED TO A DECENT LEVEL OF MATURITY-if they are beyond the level of merely struggling to make their relationship “work”- then romantic love can become a pathway, not only to sexual and emotional happiness but also to higher reaches of human growth. It can become a context for a continuing encounter with the self, through the process of interaction with another self Two consciousnesses, each dedicated to personal evolution, can provide an extraordinary stimulus and challenge to each other. But such possibility presupposes self-esteem, and there are no levels of self esteem- you either have it or you do not (Maslow). The first love affair we must consummate successfully is with ourselves; only then are we ready for a relationship with another. A person who feels unworthy and unlovable is NOT READY for romantic love.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the mirror reflection of ourselves we finf in them.

==Thomas Merton

The first duty of love is to listen.

--Paul Tillich

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

--Author Unknown

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are found in the heart.

--Helen Keller

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see,, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know your self, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

--Author Unknown

To live is like love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

--Samuel Butler

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

--Tom Robbins

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us

--Helen Keller

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember love is easy. It's Man who makes it complicated.

--Leo Buscaglia

You must love yourself before you can love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

--Abraham Maslow

Love is not a feeling but a doing

--Abraham Maslow 

You were made perfectly to be loved-and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

--Elizabeth Barret Browning

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding Back.

--Barbara De Angelis

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is LOVE.

--Sophocles

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what and who you are, your simple presence can make others happy.