I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. — Alice Walker

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

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Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

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