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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.
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He who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Occasionally 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.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Do 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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.