#elf

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#poetry #self #life

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-abnegation #love

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #self-knowledge #love

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#love #self-worth #love

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#figure #love #place #you #yourself

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#love

Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#self-help #self-love #life

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#girls #love #purity #self-sacrifice #suffering

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#empty #empty-heart #jamie-weise #love #love-story

Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond... ↗

— Jessy and Bryan Matteo

#helping-others #love #peace #selflessness #love