If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ― Henry Ward Beecher

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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves ― Laura Esquivel

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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