Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

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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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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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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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I hope they have ghost insurance.” “Pretty sure you've used that joke before,” Stacey told me. “Well, maybe Jacob hadn't heard it yet.” “I have,” Jacob said. ― J.L. Bryan

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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