To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.   — Thomas Campbell

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"When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love." 

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher

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 Life is like a circle, whatever you give will come back to you someday!

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein

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 “In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.” 

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” ― Pablo Neruda

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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“A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.”

“Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.” 

― A.J. Garces

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A rose in a desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

~ William Carlos Williams

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          Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

 — Nikola Tesla

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 A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . .

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descartes

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