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The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
- Topic: Love
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
