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Princess Diana Philanthropist, Humanitarian
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"No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being."

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Alex Kendrick Filmmaker, Actor
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"Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb."

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes."

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