Snips

What do we like? What feels good? What brings us pleasure? Whose company do we enjoy? What helps us to feel good in the morning? What's a real treat in our life? What are the small, daily activities that make us feel nurtured and cared for? What appeals to our emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical self? What actually feels good to us? We have deprived ourselves too long. There is no need to do that anymore, no need. If it feels good, and the consequences are self-loving and not self-defeating, do it!
Melody Beattie

When you know that you are not feeling loved, you naturally ask the question how can I feel loved right now? What you realize as you explore this important question is that the only way you can feel loved is to think a loving thought. Loving thoughts lead to the emotional state of feeling loved. And out of this positive emotional state actions arise which connect you to others. Now it doesn’t matter that this loving thought is about yourself or about someone else. Any loving thought will do. Love is completely unselfish and unselective. Whomever you love will do just fine. When you offer love to another person, you are also offering it to yourself.
Paul Ferrini

Intimacy without surrender is not intimacy, for what we surrender is the armor that keeps us separate. Often we feel we are ready for intimacy when in fact we are not. The ego can be very clever in hiding from our own eyes, much less someone else's, the many and varied games we play in our efforts to dodge love. to the ego, true love of another is death, for the ego is our belief in separation. When the ego has been our partner for so long, it's somewhat difficult to give it up. We feel foolish when we are out from under its cover. What we ultimately learn, of course, is that we are foolish when we are not. Intimacy is a very high-level activity. The immature can grow strong, the immature can love, but only the mature can surrender.
Marianne Williamson

"Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom."
Swami Chidvilasananda

"None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"One of the first things to do, is to love everybody ... with love, all things are possible ... and the one who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love."
Ernest Holmes

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
Wayne Dyer

"Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true."
A Course in Miracles