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To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.


François Mauriac

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ABHIJIT NASKAR Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child....
KRISTEN CALLIHAN To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you h...
KEMI SOGUNLE Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.
JOYCE RACHELLE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE When our life in him is healthy and vibrant, we do not only ache to keep sinking our roots down deep...
DAVID MATHIS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae.
KATHLEEN FULLER To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
ABHIJIT NASKAR When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.
RAHEEL FAROOQ She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I am not a queen; I am nothing at your service
EVY MICHAELS ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
JODI PICOULT Finding peace and contentment with Evernight—two emotions he was certain he’d never found in bed...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. Somebody out there can use your help to...
FARSHAD ASL The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
RUMI To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. There’s just one thing I want to know.”

Julian nodded. “Anything.”

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S.J. FROST Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE The surest cure for loneliness,
the quickest way to happiness,
is found in this, a simple ...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?
ELIZABETH BUCHAN If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself
JOCELYN MURRAY People ask, "Are you important enough for me to love you?" But they've got it all wrong. When you lo...
C. JOYBELL C. The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN It is good to love the unknown.
CHARLES LAMB Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them...
EMILY RAPP To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
DAVID HUME The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
CESAR CHAVEZ We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
TOBA BETA You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND Love to see the invisible with trust
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.
ESSIE DAVIS You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec...
AVA DELLAIRA When I think of coffee, I think of fresh mornings, companionship, a book while it rains outside, a c...
MITALI MEELAN It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from af...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.
CLIFFORD COHEN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those wh...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Paradise is Where I Am.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to oursel...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no lo...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
FRANçOIS AUGUSTE RENé RODIN All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised befo...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of whic...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One may outwit another, but not all the others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans t...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we h...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
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