As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

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Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

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

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