How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
John Irving
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AKHIL SHARMA We feed each other love; that is how we survive.
SCOTTIE SOMERS To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we pu...
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LORRIN L. LEE We need volunteers who love other people.
ANNISE JOHNSON We learned how much we love each other (and) what we're doing in our family is good for us.
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KILROY J. OLDSTER We love the things we love for what they are.
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ERIC ROTH Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
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THICH NHAT HANH We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i...
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DANIEL H. WILSON Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
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FRED ROGERS Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how t...
TOM PERROTTA I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
ALAN STERN You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love t...
AFROJACK If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.
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HAL SPARKS It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
ASPEN MATIS Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flaw...
ERIN MCCARTHY That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each oth...
RUBY DEE I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustai...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about remi...
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON "If we learn to love unconditionally, people will always be more important than things."
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The way to know life is to love many things.
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IRVING PENN Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
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