Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ― Corrie Ten Boom

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In moments of pain, we seek revenge. - Ami Ayalon

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If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger something that matters. - Blake Mycoskie

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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

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Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

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Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

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