"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on Forgiveness
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on Giving
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"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."

Sher, Barbara on Individuality
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on Forgiveness
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"Endurance is the crowning quality..."

Lowell, James Russell on Perseverance
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on Endurance
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

France, Anatole on Growth
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"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

Augustine, St. on Forgiveness
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"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take."

Estefan, Gloria on Opportunity
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Hope
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus on Gratitude
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"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Change
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"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

Eckhart, Meister on Heart
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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]"

Bible on Faith
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"And now abide faith, hope and love; these three, but the greatest of these is love. [Corinthians 13:13]"

Bible on Charity
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"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. [New Test.]"

Bible on Charity
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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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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Lovers
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"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."

Baudelaire, Charles on Lovers
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Lovers
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

Connolly, Cyril on Lovers
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"My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily."

Lawrence, D. H. on Lovers
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"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Murdoch, Iris on Lovers
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"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life."

Prevert, Jacques on Lovers
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies."

Shakespeare, William on Lovers
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on Faith
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"One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Lovers
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"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Kisses and Kissing
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"To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

Richter, Jean Paul on Forgiveness
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Forgiveness
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"Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Love
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil 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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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on Love
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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil 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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"To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together."

Duras, Marguerite on Love
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