The deepest reasons to love yourself have nothing to do with anything outside you – not with your body or with other’s expectations of you. If you ground yourself in your own goodness nothing will be able to damage your self-esteem. Take delight in your inner nature…in your virtues and all your beautiful qualities.

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy, where before there was fear, now there is courage…