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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but ...more

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into yo...more

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not all...more

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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening t...more

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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love...more

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwo...more

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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offe...more