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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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Someone once told me love isn’t perfect—or predictable. ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#love #romance #love

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. ↗

— Arrigo Boito

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#individuality #self-love #self-respect #love

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#endless #kind-words #kindness #love #words

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#separation #love

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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