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Friendship without self

Friendship without self - interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~ James F. Byrnes
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
~ Esther M. Clark
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his [...]

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A friend loves at all times

A friend loves at all times…
~ Proverbs 17:17
Friendship is the only cement
that will ever hold the world together.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that [...]

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The life and love we create

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
~ Josh Billings
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears [...]

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Love built on beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ John Donne
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the
imagination and bottling the common sense.
~ Helen Rowland

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Give love and unconditional acceptance

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love.
~ Michael (John Travolta) Michael
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
~ Unknown
To love is to admire with the [...]

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Love alone is capable of uniting

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The vision which can see Your love

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your
love in the world in spite of human failure.
Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite
of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge
that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward
the [...]

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was
in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak
was out at the elbows, the water passed through his
shoes - and the stars through his soul… Victor Hugo.
Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and
Evening Star. It [...]

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Love can hope where reason would despair

Love can hope where reason would despair… George, Lord Lyttleton.
True love doesn’t have a happy ending:
true love doesn’t have an ending… Unknown.
The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice… Carolyn Fry.
Love is…born with the pleasure of looking at each other,
it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is
concluded with the impossibility of separation… [...]

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Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries
between your heart feelings and another person… Ken Keyes.
It [Love] is not a word, nor a single action.
In truth, it can never be wrong
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It is many things and yet it must exist
In the small space of the heart.
Once found it [...]

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