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Love.

The deepest of human connections, in all its forms.

“Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

“In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”

William Shakespeare

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

“However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.”

Charles Spurgeon

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

Marcus Aurelius

“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”

Honor de Balzac

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

Stephen Chbosky

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.”

“No one is without flaws but we are still worthy of love.”

“It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.”

“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.”

“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”

“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”

“True love never grows hoary.”

Italian proverbs

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”

“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.”

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

Albert Einstein

“I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before - more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

Charles Dickens

“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”

“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

William Wordsworth

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

Martin Luther King

“One always returns to one's first love.”

French proverbs

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

Charles Dickens

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”