A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

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It is technically a failure when you don't try.

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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. -Iyanla Vanzant

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All you need is love. -John Lennon

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There is always something left to love.

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Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. – Rosemonde Gerard

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.

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If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period. -Megan Thee Stallion

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I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool. - Daniel Radcliffe

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