”Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body… For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away.

Louis de Bernières, in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

”Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

Bobbe Sommer

”A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard