Love Yourself-accept Yourself-forgive Yourself-and Be Good To

We Live In A Small World. Not A Leaf Falls That Doesn't Affect A Myriad Of Things. When We Reach Out To Someone In Love And The Effect Is Made - Everyone, Everything Which Comes In Contact With The Person We've Effected Is Better For It. Of Course, The Converse Is True, Too.

Why Do We Protect Children From Life? It's No Wonder That We Become Afraid To Live. We're Not Told What Life Really Is. We're Not Told That Life Is Joy And Wonder And Magic And Even Rapture, If You Can Get Involved Enough. We're Not Told That Life Is Also Pain, Misery, Despair, Unhappiness, And Tears. I Don't Know About You, But I Don't Want To Miss Any Of It. I Want To Embrace Life, And I Want To Find Out What It's All About. I Wouldn't Want To Go Through Life Without Knowing What It Is To Cry.

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.

...the Opposite Of Love Is Not Hate - It's Apathy. It's Not Giving A Damn. If Somebody Hates Me, They Must "feel" Something ... Or They Couldn't Possibly Hate. Therefore, There's Some Way In Which I Can Get To Them.

But Man Has Other Needs As Well: Emotional Needs. These, Too, Are Few, But Every Bit As Important As His Physical Requirements, Yet Not So Simple. If They Aren't Met, They Can Be As Devastating As Physical Hunger, As Uncomfortable As A Lack Of Shelter, As Incapacitating As Thirst. The Frustration, Isolation And Anxiety Brought About By Unmet Emotional Needs Can, Like Physical Privation, Produce Death Or A Degree Of Living Death - Neurosis And Psychosis.