It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life

To walk away from the person you care about who cannot meet your needs is one of the bravest acts you can do.

When we’re committed to being in a healthy relationship, we don’t play games. It’s really that simple.

This is what we do to our romantic partners as well. Instead of appreciating them

Even in your weakest moments

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself . . . you can do nothing for me but work on yourself. —Ram Dass

No one who loves you wants you to abandon who you are, in order to be in a relationship with them.

People often fall in lust with their projected illusions of each other. Mature love says: I see all of you and I accept all of you. The truth is, you ultimately decide who your “one” will be. And when you do decide, you’ll have to make that choice many, many times throughout your relationship. My hope is that you choose the one who gives you the support and freedom you need to fully express yourself in the world, so you never have to suppress who you are and pretend to be anyone you are not. Love isn’t just a feeling—it’s an intentional practice, a daily ritual, a verb.

that incredible feeling of wholeness and aliveness is an emotional state of being that comes from deep within ourselves. that deep, blissful pure love we feel when we're falling in love is simply a reminder of the love and joy we're capable of experiencing. it reveals the love and passion that are already inside of us, waiting to be recognized and awakened, with or without the presence of a romantic partner.