Quotes about love

"You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion."

Marden, Orison Swett on love
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"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it."

Matthews, Andrew on love
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"A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life."

Matthews, Andrew on love   

"I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best."

McKay, John on love   

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Peale, Norman Vincent on love
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"Learn what you are and be such."

Pindar on love   

"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

Powell, Anthony on love   

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."

Pythagoras on love   

"Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing."

Smith, Sydney on love   

"When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too."

Steinfeld, Jake on love
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"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."

Taylor, Jeremy on love   

"If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

Turner, Ted on love   

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins."

Upanishads, Veda on love   

"Self-love is the instrument of our preservation."

Voltaire on love
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on love   

"I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious."

Whitman, Walt on love   

"Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others."

Wieder, Marcia on love   

"The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

Young, Margaret on love   

"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high."

Gusoff, Adrienne on love
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"The only thing bigger than God`s great universe is man`s ego."

Sevakis, Gary on love
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"It does say if you don’t love your fellow Christians you're not one in the big book. "

Dye, James on love   

"Love to me is a feeling, to have universal love you have to always feel love no matter what."

Dye, James on love   

"Love poems are always cliche to me but not to the person it’s for."

Dye, James on love
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"It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all."

Davies, Graham on love
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"But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions."

Roald Dahl on love
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"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. "

Phillip Pullman on love   

"Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on love
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"All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here"

A.R. Rahman on love
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"Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."

Takami, Koushun on love
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"(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl."

King, Stephen on love
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"Bow-Chick-A-Wow-Wow! "

Jones, Justin on love   

"LOVE CANT BE OF A PERSON, IT HAS TO B EVERY BODYS"

Buddha on love   

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on love
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "

Mother Teresa on love
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