30 things you MUST know about love by the time you are 30..

9. Don’t hold back.

“I’d been afraid to really connect, fearing that I was dealing with someone who wasn’t as great as he appeared, or that my beauty and its need to share itself could be rejected. In the end, isn’t the result the same? Whether he was good or not, I held back, and now I don’t have him.” —Kristine Gasbarre, How to Love an American Man

10. You have to love yourself before you’ll have the capacity to love others.

“Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin’ anybody else.” —Madonna, “Secret”