To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.'

'Love isn't a state of perfect caring.

'Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're 'equally infinite.' Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.'.

'Love and success, always in that order.

'Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

'Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.'.

'Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.'.Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!'

'It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are.It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is firm.' 'It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls.It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.' 'It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls.'In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.'.There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.' 'If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.'I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said 'yes,' when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.'.'I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.'.'How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?'.Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.' It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. 'Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.'.It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.' 'As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time.'Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero.That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors-in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.' Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. 'All of us, at some time or other, need help.

Roger that