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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

— Leo Buscaglia LOVE (1972)

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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

People are not here to meet your expectations.

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Born For Love (1994)

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Speaking Of Love (1980)

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

LOVE (1972)

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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