"Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all."

Love, Virtue, Acceptance, Compassion

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"Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all."

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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

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"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

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"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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"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"If you have no time to love everyone, then just love one, but don't forget to love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love is the key to all human hearts."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian 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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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

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"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

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"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

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"The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."

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"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."

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"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."

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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

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