You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- Topic: Life, Love
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
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One love, one heart, one destiny.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.