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"True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be..." Anonymous

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"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere"

Thanking Michael Luyten for that one, though not sure where he got it from, but kudos to the person who said it because I rather like it 

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Just in a book I read recently, so its not a direct quote as I cannot remember it all - but along these lines, as requoted by me;

"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, but that is not really true as the truth is can be ugly and hurtful. Beauty is just that, beautiful.  As for the truth its the reality"

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"No matter what behaviour you are seeking to change, no matter what particular goal or action you are directing your efforts towards, you need to start by developing a strong willingness or wish to do it. You need to generate great enthusiasm."

The Art of Happiness - A handbook for Living, HH Dalai Lama & Howard C Cutler.

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"If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of better stuff."

Jim Richardson, National Geographic

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"Every single molecule that Charis is taking into her lungs has once been part of someone else's body, of the bodies of many others, going back and back, and then past human beings, all the way to the dinosaurs, all the way to the first planktons. Not to mention vegetation. We are all a part of everybody else, she muses. We are all a part of everything."

The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

as spoken by, Louisa May Alcott

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"A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. 'Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire' - that's the truth."

From "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson

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"He never understood that women like to complain for the sake of it, to get things off their chest, and they don't want to be fobbed off with practical solutions and course of action. They just want sympathetic attention, and lots of it"

As said by the Mum in The Bad Mothers Handbook by Kate Long

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"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times"

Trappist Monk - Thomas Merton....in the 1960's

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"Gratitude, humility and praise are the way to kindle love in a good heart, ... But when gratitude and admiration are expressed constantly they can have the opposite effect.

They become a kind of drug for the one who is on the receiving end, who then starts to demand admiration and gratitude at all costs, by means of violence, blackmail or threats. In so doing you can cause the person on whom you shower gratitude and admiration to believe in his superiority and above all his superiority over you.

In place of a companion from whom you expect love you create yourself a master who regards himself as a good, who gives orders, takes decisions and issues pardons and rewards where appropriate. But all those functions belong to another Lord altogether. The human reward for gratitude and recognition tends to be ingratitude.

The person who has tried to obtain love by means of gratitude and service tends to receive the opposite."

The Ultimate Intimacy - Ivan Klima

This quote, or rather extract, I found rather interesting, not because I believe necessarily that I have suffered like the character, but I can empathise with her. It can definately be true in relationships that one can shower the other with love, praise and gratitude and that it not be respected or taken as love that should be returned in the same copious quantities that it is given.

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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

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"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
Dr. Seuss

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I have been meaning to put this one up for a while....but here 'tis now..

"...love comes in spurts. A little then a lot. It's not a permanent wave of happiness."...."Love is an hors d'oeuvre, a caviar-encrusted canape, not a staple diet."

Care of.........Katy Lette - "How to Kill Your Husband"