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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."



Washington Irving



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Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

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Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

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Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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Love is shown more in deeds than in words.

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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

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You make me want to be a better man.

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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

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Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

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Love is not a volunteer thing.

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Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

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We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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A life lived in love will never be dull.

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This has been my life; I found it worth living.

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Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

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