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    Stephen Kendrick
    “The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”
    ― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
    tags: agape, love, marriage, unconditional-love
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Vera Nazarian
    “Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

    1. Acceptance
    2. Understanding
    3. Appreciation

    Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.

    Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?

    So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: acceptance, affection, appreciation, complex, dimension, dimensions, love, love-triangle, measure, properties, property, qualities, three, three-dimensional, triangle, trinity, two, two-dimensional, unconditional, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, understand, understanding, whole, world
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  • #4
    “Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me”
    ― Mary Haskell
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    Vera Nazarian
    “Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air
    tags: affection, love, loyalty, perception, true-love, unconditional, unconditional-love
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    Vironika Tugaleva
    “To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.”
    ― Vironika Tugaleva
    tags: breaking-up, letting-go, love, loving-and-leaving, relationships, unconditional-love, walking-away
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    Amy Leigh Mercree
    “Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.”
    ― Amy Leigh Mercree
    tags: amy-leigh-mercree, amy-leigh-mercree-quotes, gift, inspirational-quotes, love, quote-about-life, quote-of-the-day, quote-of-the-week, quotes-de-la-vida, quotes-for-instagram, quotes-to-start-the-day, quotes-tumblr, quotes-twitter, unconditional-love
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  • #8
    This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
    “This world’s anguish is no different
    from the love we insist on holding back.”
    ― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
    tags: afghanistan-war, agape-love, anguish, casualties-of-war, child-victims-of-war, children-killed-in-war, conflict-resolution, faith, fear, grief, gun-laws, gun-violence, hope, love, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, pain, peace, peace-movement, peacemaking, police-reform, police-shootings, russia-and-ukraine-conflict, spiritual-love, syrian-civil-war, tragedy, unconditional-love, violence, war, world-suicide-prevention-day
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  • #9
    “What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things.”
    ― Arka Pain
    tags: beauty, family, friends, friendship, insecurities, love, opening-up, unconditional-love
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved, true-love, what-matters
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    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    ― Chico Xavier
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    ― haruki murakami
    tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “There's that "margin of error" that you allow to exist in your mind, you want to give everything the benefit of the doubt, you want to look at another person and say "maybe we could be friends" and that's all well at first, but then you have to reach that point in your life, wherein you don't have time to live on the margins of error, and you have to say, "so what if there is a margin of error that exists? I don't think that this person and I could walk down the same path together, because she's like that, and I'm like this; I must relieve myself of fearing the error, the 'what could have been'." You know, sometimes we can be so afraid of the "what could have been" that we overlook the right here and now! And end up forsaking who we are and what makes us happy, and what we want and don't want! There is an error that takes place; when living too much for the "what could have been." There comes a time when you must give YOURSELF the benefit of the doubt! Know thyself. Color-in those margins of error with your favorite color; make them your own, make them work for you, let them be in your favor!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: color-your-margins-of-error, discerning-friendship, favor-thyself, favor-yourself, friendship, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, inspirational-trust, live-in-the-here-and-now, margins-of-error, realize-others, realize-yourself, see-others, see-reality, see-yourself, self-trust, to-discern-others, to-discern-thyself, to-forsake-the-margin-of-error, to-know-others, to-know-thyself, trust-yourself, what-could-have-been, what-could-have-beens, wisdom-quotes
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  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief, direction, faith, flight, flying, flying-spirit, hope, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, trust, uplifting, winds, winds-of-life, wings
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Mitch Albom
    “You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
    tags: trust
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I haven’t been very impressed lately.
    By people,
    or places,
    or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson
    tags: alone, breaking-up, change, charlotte-eriksson, growing-up, heart-break, impressed, life, love, mind, moving-on, people, places, poetry, prose, the-glass-child, youth
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    Kimberly Novosel
    “I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.”
    ― Kimberly Novosel, Loved
    tags: break-up, heart-break, heartbreak, heartbroken, sad
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
    And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide,
    because if you ask me about hurt
    and love
    I will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it.
    Don’t be scared. Go. Love.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson
    tags: broken-hearted, charlotte-eriksson, free, heart-break, hurt, let-go, love, move-on, prose, prose-poetry, the-glass-child, youth
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: believe, heart-break, heartache, promise
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    Sarah Noffke
    “No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I’ll come up short and suffocate.”
    ― Sarah Noffke, Awoken
    tags: grief-and-loss, heart, heart-break, heartbroken, sorrow, suffocate, trauma
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    Ken Poirot
    “The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking.”
    ― Ken Poirot
    tags: author-ken-poirot, breaking, breaking-quote, breaking-quotes, heart, heart-break, heart-breaking, heart-breaking-quote, heart-breaking-quotes, heart-quotes, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hert-quote, ken-poirot, ken-poirot-quote, ken-poirot-quotes, noise, noise-quote, noise-quotes, saddest, saddest-noise, saddest-noise-quote, saddest-noise-quotes, saddest-quote, saddest-quotes, world, world-quote, world-quotes
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    Tanzy Sayadi
    “Perhaps fate brought us together,
    And the incidents in between made us close,
    Falling in love was a simple choice,
    But breaking my heart, that was yours.”
    ― Tannaz Sayadi, Write like no one is reading 2
    tags: choice, close, falling, fate, heart-break, heart-broken, in-love, incidents
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  • #28
    “Always love...but never fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: falling, heart-break, love
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: disappointment, life, mistakes
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    Steve Maraboli
    “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, letting-go, life, mistakes
    3257 likes



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