Pearl Buck
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Think and grow rich.
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Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
I want the fairy tale.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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If you wanna call me that, smile.
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I'll have what she's having.
Adventure is worthwhile.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
For with god all things are possible.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
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The buck stops here.
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When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
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Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Go ahead, make my day.
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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
There is no education like adversity.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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