Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses — Ann Landers

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You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

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You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ― Dr. Seuss

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. _ William Shakespeare

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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ― Booker T. Washington

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To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. – Robert Morley

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True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach

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Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin P. Jones

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

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