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

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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

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“Because of a great love, one is courageous.” — Lao Tzu

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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway

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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” — Lord Byron

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

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“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” — Bradley Whitford

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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” — Rumi

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“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

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“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare

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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho

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“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

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“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” — John Lennon

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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The older you get, the fewer things you really love.” — Sergeant James

Source:The Hurt Locker, 2008. Film.

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