No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

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Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN We all love to see each other do well. We all love to help each other.
DEON BUTLER Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY

She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART

But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognit...
BRENE BROWN We got going and came out really strong in the first half, and thats what we needed to do. But once ...
EVA LANG When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ...
JONATHAN CHEN We can love each other.' I swallow hard to ease the constriction in my throat. 'There are no laws, n...
TABITHA SUZUMA All girls compare themselves with every other girl. It is our nature; our tragedy, and it all change...
CHLOE THURLOW Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
KEMI SOGUNLE There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the...
LOUISE MURPHY An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST We all need one another and we need to help each other.
ARTHUR STEIN Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.
PETE WENTZ Love his heart and soul not his money thats what we call love
GUNDO MULAUDZI You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI I like to believe that I believe, and yet, I think I know the truth of the matter.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems a...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.
DAVID CROSBY We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The human heart knows thing the eyes cant see, and feels the things the mind cant understand.. but i...
VANESSA SCHIFFER Love and peace to those whose hearts ache for the human race
PATRICE TILLMON Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals...
SUZY KASSEM There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want...
TABITHA SUZUMA Bullies do not just wake up and decide to be one. They are people who have or are experiencing emoti...
KEMI SOGUNLE Perfection isn't something that we can see and it isn't something that we can touch, but it exists h...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of...
JERLINE We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt...
MARY MANIN MORRISSEY We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes...
KAMAND KOJOURI We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each ot...
PETER DE VRIES If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings ...
WERLEY NORTREUS We love these characters and we love them even when they're unlikable, ... We always see the pain an...
ALAN BALL The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES Destroy all the barrier inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be...
DEBASISH MRIDHA As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
MITCH ALBOM You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt...
MARY MANIN MORRISSEY If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot h...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM You know when we are blessed when our love strengthens for each other, that’s how you know God has...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they ar...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our he...
JEAN VANIER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like eac...
PETER DE VRIES The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are ...
PREM RAWAT When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and fr...
FRANK HERBERT Soul is the invisible part of a living being that is immortal and breath is the evidence that the so...
KATE MCGAHAN We kill each other, ... Black men are in pain, and, in some cases, black men are reacting to years o...
ROBERT ATWELL When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES If puss and dog can get together, why cant we love one another?
BOB MARLEY No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. M...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves fr...
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f...
ABHISHEK KUMAR When we remove all emotion, all judgement, and all expectation there is only love left. Love is foun...
L.J. VANIER You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS We do not cry forever. Much as we were when we were once born. We cry because we need to know and fe...
MAICHEE SUMMER If we can accept those who disagree with us, who are hurt and full of misunderstandings, we must tre...
GREG GORDON (Wrestling Daniel Foley) is like wrestling a mirror. We know each other's habits and we help each ot...
COLIN HEASLEY May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA "We are most alive when our hearts are filled with love and kindness." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. An...
JULIAN OF NORWICH Even after seeing you a thousand times
Why is there this ache within my heart?
AVIJEET DAS Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when i...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more ...
BURNING SPEAR But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave a...
AMANDA GRACE But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave a...
AMANDA GRACE How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for ea...
C. JOYBELL C. After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other....
KALEY CUOCO When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate e...
UGO BETTI Everything I say, I say to one another... and everything I know, I know it from another... The tears...
BRAM MESLAND What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends onthings like space and time, th...
RICHARD BACH Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.
SUZY KASSEM God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far b...
C. JOYBELL C. We are neck deep in debt. We are left with no other option but to sell of our land.
JASBIR SINGH

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MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
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No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

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No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

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