Only when you are at peace with yourself can you be at peace with others

I share this reflection because I agree with some points...

• Only when you are at peace with yourself can you be at peace with others.
• Only when you handle your solitude can you handle a relationship.
• You need to value yourself to value, love yourself to love, respect yourself to respect, and accept yourself to accept, because no one can give what they don't have within themselves.
• No relationship will give you the peace that you don't already have within you.
• No relationship will provide the happiness that you don't build yourself.
• You can only be happy with someone else when you are capable of saying to them with conviction, "I don't need you to be happy."
• You can only love when you are independent, to the point where you don't have to manipulate or control those you claim to love.
• Two happy people can only come together to share their happiness, not to make each other happy.
• To love, you need humble self-sufficiency, self-esteem, and the practice of responsible freedom.
• Pretending that another person can make us happy and fulfill all our expectations is a narcissistic fantasy that only brings frustrations.
• Therefore, love yourself a lot, grow up, and the day you can say to the other person, "I can have a good time without you," that day you will be more prepared to live in a relationship.
• Only by being well on the inside can we attract valuable people into our lives.
• To be able to love another person, we must first learn to love ourselves.

Full version in Spanish is here: http://titosan.blogspot.com/2008/10/slo-cuando-ests-bien-contigo-mismo.html

Update: It seems that the original website no longer exists, which is a shame!