Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.
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MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. -The Seventy... HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc... HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow wha... THOMAS JEFFERSON The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY We can only learn to love by loving. IRIS MURDOCH Love is holy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I... RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ... LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being. LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given, So stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and y... MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. STIRLING MOSS You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just... ST. FRANCIS DE SALES You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just... ANATOLE FRANCE There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever... JOCELYN SORIANO We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our wa... KILROY J. OLDSTER Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They ... BELL HOOKS We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people... KILROY J. OLDSTER People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot... C. ROBERT CARGILL You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product. DONNA MILLS I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years HENRY MOORE This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn... PETER MCWILLIAMS Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ... 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A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.... CATHERINE LACEY How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t... R.C. SPROUL Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable s... WILLIAM FAULKNER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the l... THOMAS HARDY She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. 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MONSON You never know how strong you are until you've been tested. People will try you on every level. They... AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is s... JUNOT DíAZ Just by loving the good things about a person doesnt mean you truly love them it means your pretendi... SEGEV LAYANI All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose ... LAURENCE STERNE Money is only a human invention. VANNA BONTA To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone o... JOHN LOCKE The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by lovin... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are o... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ... JULIANA OF NORWICH I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa... TOMMY DONBAVAND At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stan... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operat... BENJAMIN DISRAELI We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte... C. JOYBELL C. Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human ... , IN THE INTRODUCTION TO FRANCES G. WICKES' "ANALYSIS DER KINDERSEELE" (THE INNER WORLD OF CHILDHOOD), 1931 If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully liv... KAREN SALMANSOHN Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a... 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