Don't allow people to be reckless with your love,

your heart and your tenderness. And don't allow old

definitions to dictate your present life. You can

rewrite the rule book by learning to honor yourself

and others and by recording over the old tapes.

You can find a new definition of love for yourself,

one that truly means treating the other person

as valuable, as worthy of great love and care. And

You can expect that same treatment for yourself.

Whatever it is, it is yours to define for yourself

this lifetime.

-- from "Life Lessons" by  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross &

                                   David Kessler