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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love."

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Melissa Brown Artist
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"That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love"

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins"

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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
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"Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds"

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work."

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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form."

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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?"

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us."

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