“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”

“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light. but hey, that would be going into sexual details…”

“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.”

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris”