1. "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." ~ Victor Hugo
2. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." ~ Sophocles
3. "It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." ~ Voltaire
5. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." ~ Dorothy Parker
6. "To love another person is to see the face of God." ~ Les Miserables
7. "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." ~ Dr. Karl Menninger
8. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." ~ D. H. Lawrence
9. "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
10. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~ Oscar Wilde
11. "Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth." ~ Matt Zotti
12. "Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." ~ Author Unknown
13. "Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other." ~ Louise Erdrich
14. "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could." ~ Barbara De Angelis
It is true that the dictionary does not have an adequate definition of love. After all, it's not easy to put such passion, fire and depth of emotion into words. These 14 insightful love quotes, however, prove that love can indeed be defined.
I have to say, I'm very happy to see that Love Yourself Week is coming up and I'm ready to celebrate with some great love quotes. Why? Because it's easy to love others and write quotes about how that feels, but we seem to have a much harder time loving ourselves. So here are 14 great love quotes to remind us that we deserve our own love as much as the next person.
1. "Self-love seems so often unrequited." ~ Anthony Powell
2. "Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
3. "If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." ~ Nicholas de Chamfort
4. "The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." ~ Sonya Friedman
5. "You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy." ~ Author Unknown
6. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." ~ Lucille Ball
7. "Love yourself instead of abusing yourself." ~ Karolina Kurkova
8. "To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now." ~ Alan Cohen
9. "To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way." ~ June Jordan
10. "Don't forget to love yourself." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
11. "If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." ~ Kristin Chenoweth
12. "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~ Buddha
13. "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." ~W.C. Fields
When it comes down to it, you must first love yourself before you can truly love others and you must love yourself before you can accept that others truly love you. So, if you look at it that way, perhaps Love Yourself Week is one of the most important holidays we celebrate! Let the above twelve quotes remind you of that.
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