“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

“Love is simply a bundle of feelings that we express, whether to attract, arouse or communicate our thoughts to someone else.”

“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

“We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.”

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”

“We approach one another as if we were separate entities and see the other only from a limited point of view – not as part of us; we do not open ourselves to others with complete faith. When we first encounter objects or persons we think, because of this feeling of separateness, that they are just as we find them and nothing else. But if my attitude towards this person is of love, interest, oneness, then I will lose that first impression of having accidentally found them and will grow beyond my limitations towards something at once more intimate and more vast.”

“We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.”

“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”

“Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?”