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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”
- Leo Rosten- Copy
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“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”
- Chuck Klosterman- Copy
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“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”
- RJ Intindola- Copy
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“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”
- Elizabeth George- Copy
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“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”
- Alain de Botton- Copy
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“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”
- Michael Kilman- Copy
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“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”
- St. Augustine of Hippo- Copy
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“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”
- Jumoke Odepe- Copy
“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”
- Julie Kagawa- Copy
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“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”
- Leo Buscaglia- Copy
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“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”
- Lenora Porch- Copy