To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them