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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there."

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Katie Couric Journalist
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"It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters."

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"Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing."

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"From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy."

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