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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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