TO LOVE YOURSELF...

It is wonderful to find someone you like or even love, but it is much more important to love yourself.

You may find great happiness in finding a friend who is a good and loyal person, but more happiness can be found in knowing that these things are true of you. It is great to meet people, who, just by being who they are, earn our love, appreciation, and respect; but it is greater to know that we deserve these things from the people in our lives.

Remember that the love, appreciation and respect that you feel for another are your feelings. They originate inside of you, and therefore, they belong to you. Remember that people come and go, and, of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you...