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- For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
- Millard Fuller
- God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
- Dean Koontz
- The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
- Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
- Nora Roberts
- The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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