"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell on Acceptance
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"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."

Traherne, Thomas on Love
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"There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place."

Mother Teresa on Jesus Christ
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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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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on Love
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"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on Men and Women
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hatred
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on Achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on Achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Achievement
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"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love."

Magdenburg, Mechthild of on Soul
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on Infatuation
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Achievement
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"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Love
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"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."

Drummond, Henry on Love
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on Love
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"Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest."

Dyke, Henry Van on Gratitude
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on Self-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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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on Acceptance
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"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

Traherne, Thomas on Conceit
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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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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on Achievement
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur 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 life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Love
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"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."

Eliot, George on Love
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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

Gouthey, A. P. on Achievement
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on Love
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"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on Love
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"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."

Williamson, Marianne on Miracles
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on Love
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"The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved."

Clyde, R.D. on Happiness
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"

Hoffer, Eric on Achievement
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"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on Love
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on Love
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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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