"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on Adversity
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"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on Lovers
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"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on Relationships
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"Forgiveness is the oil of relationships."

Mcdowell, Josh on Forgiveness
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on Patience
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"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."

Unknown, Source on Love
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Jealousy
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Camus, Albert on Love
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on Happiness
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on Love
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on Freedom
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on Love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on Love
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