Self-Love/Self-Hate and Love/hate

All the affectionate feelings of a man for others are an extension of his feelings for himself. Aristotle

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. Thomas Fuller

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. Eric Hoffer

To love one's self in the right way and to love one's neighbor are absolutely analogous concepts, are at bottom one and the same. Kierkegaard

Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell

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Enthusiasm for Life, Love, and Living

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found. Joan Baez

Energy is equal to desire and purpose. Sheryl Adams

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. Bertrand Russell

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player. Pete Rose

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman

You have a choice in this world. You can accept your life as it is, or you can work hard to turn it into the life that you want. The choice is yours. Do not fool yourself. Although all of your wishes may not come to pass, it is not true that life is holding you down. If you want it, you must work. The work starts today. Rouse yourself. Do not let today pass.

Kahlil Gibran on Life and Love

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Breaking Up and Moving Forward

Here is our second offering. We posted this to YouTube also. The quotes are great, but we recognize the presentation is just barely on this side of tolerable. We'll get better. Promise.

Breaking Up and Moving Forward -- It's all about love, dating, relationships.

William Shakespeare on Love, Truth, and Doubt

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare

Why I'm a Lesbian

Quotes about life as a lesbian.

Love is a Two-Edged Sword

Try this little video (sort of) that we posted on YouTube.

John Donne on Life and Love

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove,
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
John Donne

Aristotle on Love, Souls and Bodies

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

William Shakespeare on Love, Sunshine and Rain

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare

Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

John Lennon and Paul McCartney on Love

All you need is love.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Arthur Rubinstein

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

There is beauty everywhere. Seek it out, and make it part of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do... Build, therefore, your own world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no promises, but the world is waiting for you to go out and explore. Your dreams are your destiny, if you believe. Spread your wings and fly.

And then come back and tell us about it.