"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Blake, William on Love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on Love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on Love
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"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."

Parker, Dorothy on Children
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on Lovers
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on Love
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on Apathy
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"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy on Leaders and Leadership
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"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on Life and Living
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"Among the blind the one eyed is king."

Proverb on Leaders and Leadership
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"We learn by teaching."

Proverb on Learning
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"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag."

Proverb on Leaders and Leadership
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"Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant."

Proverb on Ignorance
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on Love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on Love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on Love
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on Love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on Love
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Love
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Love
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"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

Barthes, Roland on Love
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"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Barr, Amelia E. on Love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on Love
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on Love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on Love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on Love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on Love
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"A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor."

Proverb on Honor
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"The first step toward greatness is to be honest."

Proverb on Greatness
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"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb on Absence
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"Never find fault with the absent."

Proverb on Absence
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

Buren, Abigail Van on Character
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on Listening
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"People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time."

Gellhorn, Martha on Memory
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

Carnegie, Dale on Memory
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"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived."

Sontag, Susan on Memory
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on Memory
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on Apathy
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"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

Luther, Martin on Death and Dying
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