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We can only love the way we were created to if we are first whole in ourselves. ↗

— Aaron Patterson

#love

I think you're really nice" "I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#love

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#inspirational #art

Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#heroine #sweet-valley #love

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. "You're like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#children-s-books #love #love

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#reason #universal-love #love

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#religion #art

I don't know you. I'll give you that very easily. I DON'T know you. I only know things about you, the colour of your hair, the shape of your shoulders, the pools of brown eye, very seductive. I know your temperament. I know some of your expressions. I have a collection of words written by you. You share a few ideas. You use too many adjectives. But I don't know anything about who, exactly, you are, in fact. ↗

— Bill Shapiro

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It's better to live with love than die without it. ↗

— Alberti Luca The Alfonzo series

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Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll ↗

— Rachel Abbott

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