love yourself poems

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8



Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928



After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb



We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller



A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming



Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson



The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924



The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. ~Linus Pauling



There is no truth. There is only perception. ~Gustave Flaubert



On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. ~Jon Stewart



Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. ~Felix G. Rohatyn, New York Times, 3 June 1987



You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold



Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Terri Guillemets



Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini



If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets



Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. ~Paula Poundstone



Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire



When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan



Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~Josh Billings