Love Quotes

If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

~ Ayn Rand

Love worth giving is love perfected on ourselves.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.

~ Jay Woodman

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

~ Anonymous

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

~ Ka Chinery

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is something that assaults or invades the body of the lover to wrest control of it from him, a personal struggle of will and physique between the god and his victim. The poets describe this struggle from within a consciousness – perhaps new in the world – of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.

~ Anne Carson

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self.

~ Robert Tew

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.

~ Robert Tew

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

~ Crystal L. Swain

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.

~ Caroline Hanson

When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.

~ Pavitraa Parthasarathy

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you

~ Walt Whitman

I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

~ Vivian Amis

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.

~ Turcois Ominek

And when you reach the place where this understanding overtakes you; that there is no one in the world that will ever love you with the force and power you can love yourself with. That no saviour in the form of a spouse or best friend is coming to make you complete and that you are your own saviour, your own best friend and perhaps the only saviour and best friend you will have, you will soar on wings of eagles and amazing things will happen.

~ Adunni Badmus

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

~ Gary Chapman

You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker.

~ Dani N M.

Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same...

~ Marston James

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows...... This is where love is taking me.You have been leadingMe, angels, in and out of death.I have no idea who you are.Eurydice. Is she nothingOr is she your mirror?I don't know anymore.I am at war.Perhaps that which is given - Being human - Is too hard,And so it is love that brings us,To what cannot be born,To ourselves,And so we must change,Must descend, guided by love, into the unknown.Lovers disappear in each other.Do they disappear forever?Where do they go?

~ Kathy Acker

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

~ Leo Buscaglia

You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.

~ Toni Sorenson

She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?

~ Alice Munro

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.

~ Orson Scott Card

Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

~ Roland Barthes

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being.

~ Luce Irigaray

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

~ Turcois Ominek

Because you believed In yourselfYour tiny selfBecause you knewThere is no greater accomplishmentThan making someone love you

~ Gabrielle Prendergast

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

~ Peter Adejimi

Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.

~ Jay Woodman

How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?

~ Sean King

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

~ Elizabeth George

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

~ Jim George

...you don't need a calling to minister love...

~ John Geddes

The voice of love calls to you, my son.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

~ Julian Barnes

Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.

~ Laurelin Paige

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

~ Mary Balogh