I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ― Mandy Hale

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ― Clementine Holzinger

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It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

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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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In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

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