Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm

You could search the whole world and never find anyone as deserving of your love as yourself.
Buddha

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. —Maya Angelou

We must be our own before we can be another’s.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—William Bruce Cameron

Thanks to the kind reader who informed us that this quote was originally misattributed to Albert Einstein.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver

And now let us welcome the New Year—full of things that have never been.
—Rainer Maria Rilke