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There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and…
— Dan Barker
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Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....
— Karl A. Menninger
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
— Beyonce Knowles
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You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.
— Leon Brown
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been…
— H. L. Mencken
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Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through…
— Paul of the Cross
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When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more…
— Ernest Hemingway
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He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
— Bob Hope
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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to…
— Sojourner Truth
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing…
— John of the Cross
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As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the…
— Mother Teresa
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
— Phillips Brooks
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how…
— Og Mandino
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Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.
— Ralph Marston
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The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from…
— Deepak Chopra
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