"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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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Roosevelt, Theodore on opinions
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

Aurelius, Marcus on peace
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

Byron, Lord on hope
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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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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"

Bible on love
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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Billings, Josh on love
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"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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"Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar."

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of on love
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"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Bourget, Paul on love
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"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces."

Arendt, Hannah 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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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. 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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"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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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard 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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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."

Baudrillard, Jean 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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"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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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

Franklin, Miles on friends and friendship
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

Hsieh, Tehyi on friends and friendship
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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

McLaughlin, Mignon on friends and friendship
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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