If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
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AMIT ABRAHAM no one needs love from you more than you need love from you. love yourself first, AVA. Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will ... WILLIAM LAW When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be love... IYANLA VANZANT Life is a lot easier when you make peace with yourself. When you forgive yourself. When you stop tor... AKIROQ BROST The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are ... BRUCE FORSYTH I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I ... KATIE KIESLER NELSON There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,... CASSANDRA CLARE If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love some... 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is the only sum that multiplies when it is divided, the more you give the more you will receive MICHELLE CARUANA Nothing you love is left behind. You come back to it once you understand it, once you see its essenc... VLADIMIRA CHALYOVA Seeking peace? Find love within yourself and share that love with others. Then you will have peace. CHRISTOPHER SHEA Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all... WILLIAM SAROYAN Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act... GARY ZUKAV A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p... S.A.R.K. If you don’t know what love is, or how, real love feels like, you wouldn’t know that you have ex... RAJWIN CHANDY Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there. 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ANDREW MATTHEWS Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no pas... A. VIOLET END If you choose great language and truthfully inspirational thinking you never have meaningfulness liv... JAMES WOOD In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do w... JESS ROTHENBERG The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if yo... EMILY MAGUIRE Through the reciprocation of energy, always, and every time, we will get exactly what we put out the... WILL BARNES Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. GARY ZUKAV Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. GARY ZUKAV When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the rea... THICH NHAT HANH The only way to get love is to be lovable. 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From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. 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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer... TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war. TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y... TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s... TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem... TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,... TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ... TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d... TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w... TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and... TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending. TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN