We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

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It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power.

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ― Dalai Lama

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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ― Tennessee Williams

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There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

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