To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

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What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. ― Gabriel García Márquez

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. - Wayne Dyer

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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right.

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