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Love is sacrifice. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#love is #sacrifice

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

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The first duty of love is to listen. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. ↗

— Sean Penn

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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. ↗

— Sean Penn

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

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