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“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
― Daphne Rae, Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need