Aug 23 '10 14 Love Quotes to Celebrate Love yourself Week

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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.

Aug 22 '10 20 Love Quotes to Celebrate the First Day of Spring

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Spring will be here before you know it and love is in the air, so let’s celebrate with 20 great love quotes to announce the arrival of the season on March 20th! The grass will be green soon and the mounds of snow will become a distant memory. The birds will chirp, the butterflies will flutter. Here are 20 wonderful love quotes to celebrate such a wondrous time of year.

1. “O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day; which now shows all the beauty of the sun, and by and by a cloud takes all away.”
~ William Shakespeare

2. “Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
~ Thomas Hardy

3. “Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.”
~ William Shakespeare

5. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
~ Judy Garland

6. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft

7. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
~ Albert Einstein

9. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
~ Crystal Middlemas

10. “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

11. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
~ Janos Arany

12. “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

13. “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

14. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
~ David Viscott

15. “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
~ J. K. Rowling

16. “There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.”
~ Charles Morgan

17. “Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
~Malagasy Proverb

18. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” ~ Mark Overby

19. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
~Peter Ustinov

20. “They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and there’s no moon above.”
~E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Fred Saidy

Get ready for Spring — and get ready for romance! On March 20th we’ll kiss Winter goodbye and say hello to a much sweeter season. The above 20 love quotes will help you prepare yourself for all spring has to offer.

Aug 12 '10 12 Love Quotes to Celebrate Sweetest Day

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Sweetest Day is right around the corner and romantics everywhere are looking for love quotes to recite to those they hold near and dear. Plum out of love quotes or romantic sayings to share? Fear not. These twelve gems will come to your rescue, making this year’s Sweetest Day one of the most romantic yet.

1. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

2. “There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

4. “Real love stories never have endings.” ~ Richard Bach

5. “The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world Is a woman’s heart.” ~ Josiah G. Holland

6. “Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. “Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Erich Fromm

9. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~ Janos Arany

10. “Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation – We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

11. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” ~ Madame De Stael

12. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it – you and you alone make me feel that I am alive – Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” ~ George Moore

While the traditional flowers and chocolates may do the job, why not take a more romantic approach? Actions can speak louder than words, but some words paint a beautiful picture. Let the above twelve love quotes paint a picture of how you feel about your loved one this Sweetest Day.

Jul 16 '10 14 Love Quotes to Celebrate the Season of Fall

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Fall really is a romantic time of year and it’s a great time to sit back and enjoy a few love quotes. The leaves are changing, the weather is getting cooler… Grab a cup of hot apple cider, curl up next to the fire and enjoy these 14 love quotes with that special someone in your life.

1. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

2. A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ~ Charles Kingsley

3. Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. ~ Joseph Conrad

4. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. ~ Mother Theresa

5. What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~ George Eliot

6. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. ~ Ann Landers

7. Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. ~ Emma Goldman

8. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland

9. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~ Boethius

10. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

11. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. ~ Henry Drummond

12. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. ~ Margaret Atwood

13. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

14. Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

As warm as an October fire maybe, true love burns brighter. In today’s hectic world, make sure you take the time to share these 14 love quotes with the person you love most.