Love is natural and unconditional. Love asks no questions--neither preaching nor demanding; neither comparing nor measuring. Love is--pure and simple--the greatest value. . .

If there is no deep, internalized feeeling of value inside of us, then we have nothing to give to or share with others. We can need them, we can be dependent upon them, we can look for security in them, we can indulge them, flatter them and attempt to purchase them. But we cannot share or give an emotion to anyone else, unless we first possess that emotion inside of us.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 32