Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

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I have found that if you love life. Life will love you back. ― Arthur Rubinstein

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking. _ Ainsley Earhardt

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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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