"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."

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"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Love, Heart, Indifference, Needs

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Love, Civilization, Fact, Public

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile-no black, white, yellow, or red. We could be one great brotherhood in Jesus Christ. However, until we come to recognize Him as the Prince of Peace and receive His love in our hearts, the racial tensions will increase, racial demands will become more militant, and a great deal of blood will be shed. The race problem could become another flame out of control!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The proof of true love for God is in service to others."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Love, Service, Faith, Sacrifice

"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

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"I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man."

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"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor."

Music, Life, Honor, Years

"My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."

People, Man, Song, State

"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

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"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

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"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."

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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."

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"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."

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