Worthy Of Love Quotes - Page 2

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Esteem

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, Here I Am, People

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• A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Doe, Injustice

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Regret, Stress

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”

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• Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Lovers, Affection

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• Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Love Life, Men, Identity

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• The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Opportunity, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.408, Modern Library

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• Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Humble, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Stopping, Worthy

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Disputed Questions”, p.143, Macmillan

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• We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Deserve Love, Water

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran child who's gotten here is less worthy of love, attention, opportunity than my child, but because I'm the president of the United States of America and I'm not speaking as a religious leader.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mind, Proof, Worthy

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.

  Amy Harmon

  Beautiful, Love You, Hands

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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• Not all men are worthy of love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Worthy

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.32, Courier Dover Publications

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• Please reach out for help, your voice will save you.

  Brooke Axtell

  Voice, Helping, Please

  "Brooke Axtell Joins Katy Perry’s Grammys Performance To Stand Up Against Domestic Violence" by Jessica Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

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• The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

  Herbert Ratner

  Children, Educational, Love Is

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• Just maybe I was worthy of love.

  Abbi Glines

  Worthy

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 3: Bad for You; Hold on Tight; Until the End”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

  Kardinal Offishall

  Powerful, Thinking, Power Of Love

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• Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way.

  Michael C. Hall

  Father, Dark, Unique

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• Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Deserve Love, Water, Cards

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grieving, Past, Punishment

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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