True love turns words and feelings into actions.
There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.
The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.