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- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
- Wally Lamb
- There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- May Sarton
- A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
- Alice Childress
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
- It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
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