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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.”
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.”

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