Bill Russell
Basketball Player, Coach
"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
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Inspirational Love
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Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Stephen King
Author
"A life without love is like a tree without fruit."
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"I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life."
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"Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding."
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"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."
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"I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again."
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"Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path."
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"Hate is too great a burden to bear."
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"Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away."
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"To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden."
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"Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear."
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"In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious."
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"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo."
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"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
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"Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades."
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"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."
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"Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age."
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"The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish."
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"We love the things we love for what they are."
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
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"Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?"
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