“Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it’s clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.”
You can always get back up from whatever knocks you down. Sometimes it takes a long time. Sometimes you can’t do it on your own. Sometimes it will be the hardest fight of your life. But that doesn’t make you a failure. Everyone has to go at their own pace, as long as they do keep going.
