“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good. Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman’s ‘part.’ In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman ‘discovers herself through a sincere gift of self.'”

―Pope St. John Paul II