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Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

By Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author and journalist, most commonly recognized for her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love.” She was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and is on Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHe who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOccasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDo not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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