Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.
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You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA There are only two ends to this dance.
You can flee with your wounds just in time,
Or li...
RACHEL YAMAGATA They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercove...
DAVID ROVICS if my love were an ocean ,
There would be no more land.
If my love were a desert ,
Yo...
JAY ASHER If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you ...
JAY ASHER You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.
All life does.
LESLEY LIVINGSTON I write you a letter that begins
With I love you and ends with I love you and
Somewhere in...
PATRICIA SMITH You may look at a rainbow and wonder if there really is a pot of gold at the end of it.. know that Y...
SARAH VINE I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO DARE TO COMPARE
If you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged per...
KAMIL ALI You're nobody's rainbow.
You're nobody's princess.
You're nobody's doorway but your own,...
SEANAN MCGUIRE It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself.
'Alone Time' is Necessary
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Happiness begins with love from others, but ends if you can’t love yourself.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI But whatever
However
Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love...
ANDREA GIBSON If you want to brighten up a person's day.
Give them a rainbow.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you
RUPI KAUR Where were you
when
I undressed and told the tales of my day?
Where were you
w...
KAMAND KOJOURI Dare to be a Mormon.
Dare to stand alone.
Dare to have a purpose firm;
Dare to make...
THOMAS S. MONSON You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. but mostly...
DR. SEUSS Share yourself with me.
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here KAMAND KOJOURI Don't you do that.
Don't you look at what I had for you and call it weak.
Not when you wer...
CAITLYN SIEHL Come to me.
Why must you ruin this moment?
You are burdened with thought.
Burdened wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI Your mom is a rainbow goddess?"
"You got a problem with that?"
"No, no. Rainbows. Very mac...
RICK RIORDAN Mustardseed grinned at Bertie. "I was never any good at geometry, but you’re stuck in a love trian...
LISA MANTCHEV where do i find self love?'
you dig
dig until you find the gold
JENAI CHARLES It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal po...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If you hate it... you close it!
If you can't do it... you don't do it...!
...
D...
DEYTH BANGER My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.
love yourself first, AVA. If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to ...
WALTER D. WINTLE If you don't have a rainbow to give.
Give a smile. It works just the same.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourself
with far-sighted visionaries. You need to ...
D.S. MASHEGO If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If...
LAO TZU When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not lis...
MARTHA MEDEIROS If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a har...
PETER S. BEAGLE In a world of love
lightning and rainbow
are lovers now.
They arc and strike
...
MUNIA KHAN How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fi...
PABLO NERUDA The unconscious has become the subconscious mind conscious, and in love with itself.
Take a loo...
NIKKI SHIVA if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED When you build yourself a 16-point halftime deficit, you almost have to play perfect at both ends to...
JOE CASSIDY Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.
Antony: If you choose to regard me as such...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.
M.F. MOONZAJER We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall...
GEORGE HARRISON who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.
this is the oldest m...
MARTY MCCONNELL EMILY KAGAN TRENCHARD The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
When I'm insp...
DOLLY PARTON Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with...
MARY ANNE RADMACHER Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success...
JOYCE BROTHERS ...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile."
"...Where's all the loot...
EOIN COLFER Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when th...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce a...
JAY WOODMAN What if you died?"
"I'd sit up there on the edge of my cloud and throw stuff at you."
GRASSHOPPER I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie’s cheek.
“FUCK,” he shouted, wiping it off. “What if...
MICHELLE HODKIN As if reading his mind, Lily huffed. “You’re as predictable as the spring rains, son of mine, an...
ELI EASTON Love has not a value,
though we treasure it dear,
it's worth more than gold,
that's w...
ANTHONY T HINCKS I haven’t been avoiding you,”
“You’re lying. The last time we were both at dinne...
KRISTEN ASHLEY But what's worth more than gold?"
"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA His hands fluttered like birds,
each with a fancy silk ribbon
to weave into their nest, TED KOOSER Pay to go inside Neruda's home
A body lies there with no dome.
But right there in the fron...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Even if you lie to me...that's okay.
I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can giv...
YUN KOUGA Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action -...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots ...
PABLO NERUDA If you dare nothing,
then when the day is over,
nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMAN If I am your rainbow, then you are my pot of gold.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Maxon, some of those marks are on your back so they wouldn’t be on mine, and I love you for them.�...
KIERA CASS Don't touch me.
Don't you dare touch me.
Unless you plan on leaving
a story beh...
PAVANA पवन live as if you were to die tommorow.
dream as if you were to live forever
ALBERT EINSTEIN Well any man with a microphone
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love...
JACK WHITE My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,
my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on y...
PABLO NERUDA -Desiderata-
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may...
MAX EHRMANN Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself ...
WALT WHITMAN Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actio...
LAO TZU Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than div...
ARTHUR DILLON I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth ...
ANNE RAMPLING Because you believed
In yourself
Your tiny self
Because you knew
There is...
GABRIELLE PRENDERGAST If you want to feel youthful...pink's your color.
If you want to feel old...then it's blue rins...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourse...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate...
PABLO NERUDA Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.
We had found it.
But n...
MARY E. PEARSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep."
"Just making sure you were comforta...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends...
T. S. ELIOT Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, ...
STEPHEN KING Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tep...
BETTIE SHARPE Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
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