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Learn to love with all your heart & accept the unlovable side of others.
For anyone can love a rose, but only a great heart can include the thorns.

She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud
Feed on her damask cheek; she pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

Love’s a capricious power; I’ve known it hold
Out through a fever caused by its own heat;
But be much puzzled by a cough or cold,
And find a quinsy very hard to treat.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite – of the ideal made real.

There is no such thing as perfect love. . .
The only thing you can do to make it somehow perfect
is to be SATISFIED.

Love is life’s end! An end, but never ending;
All joys, all sweets, all happiness, awarding;
Love is life’s wealth, ne’er spent, but ever spending
More rich by giving, taking by discarding;
Love’s life’s reward, rewarding in rewarding;
Then from thy wretched heart fond care remove;
Ah! Shouldst thou live but once love’s sweets to prove,
Thou wilt not love to live, unless thou live to love.

I learned to love someone with all my life
but there came a point that I got tired,
not of loving but sacrificing all that I have.
Then a thought came to my mind.
I have given everything but received nothing
but pain & tears in return.
Is this enough to prove that I really love that person?
Or is it a sign telling me to stop sacrificing
& learn to love myself a little more?

Never say that someone completes you.
We have to feel whole even when we are by ourselves
for needing a certain someone is not love but dependency.
Wanting a person to become a part of your life
is the best reason for having them.
You can only want when you know you have enough.
So rather than search for that someone who will complete you,
Wait for the person who will complement your completeness.

Though a mother gives birth to nine sons, all nine will be different.

If you do not support your mother while alive, it is no use to sacrifice to them when dead.

It is difficult for a mother to guarantee the virtues of her sons and daughters.

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She was a friend – I had but her – no more,
No other upon earth – and as for heaven,
I am as they that seek a sign, to whom
No sign is given. My mother! Oh, my mother! Taylor

A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive. Coleridge

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or MOTHER, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Harold McMillan

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love”.  Mother Teresa

“Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.” Anonymous

“Why is it that we don’t always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?”

“A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries.” Anonymous

“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.”

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold

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