Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
Blaise Pascal
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
Seneca
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Maya Angelou
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi