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By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

André Gide
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.

Sigmund Freud
Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon
When you love strongly, you always find something new in your lover.

When you love strongly, you always find something new in your lover.

Blaise Pascal
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Eldridge Cleaver
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Plato

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be "buttered up" from time to time.

Zig Ziglar
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Joyce Brothers
Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love requires years of work, but in the end it is really worth the time.

Love requires years of work, but in the end it is really worth the time.

Anonymous
We fall in love by chance, we stay in love by choice.

We fall in love by chance, we stay in love by choice.

Anonymous
No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance it is by choice.

No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance it is by choice.

Anonymous
It's nice when someone remembers every little detail about you, not because you keep reminding them but because they actually pay attention.

It's nice when someone remembers every little detail about you, not because you keep reminding them but because they actually pay attention.

Anonymous
True love isn't found,it's built.

True love isn't found, it's built.

Anonymous
A real man never stops trying to show a girl he cares about her, even if he already has her.

A real man never stops trying to show a girl he cares about her, even if he already has her.

Anonymous
The most attractive thing to me is effort. Someone who really wants to talk to me, see me, and make me a part of their day.

The most attractive thing to me is effort. Someone who really wants to talk to me, see me, and make me a part of their day.

Anonymous
Go for someone who is not only proud to have you, but will also take every risk just to be with you.

Go for someone who is not only proud to have you, but will also take every risk just to be with you.

Anonymous
Never stop showing someone how much they mean to you.

Never stop showing someone how much they mean to you.

Anonymous
It's one thing to tell her that she's beautiful, but it's another thing to make her feel it too.

It's one thing to tell her that she's beautiful, but it's another thing to make her feel it too.

Anonymous
To love a person is to see all of their magic and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

To love a person is to see all of their magic and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Anonymous
It's one thing to tell her that she's beautiful but it's another thing to make her feel it too.

It's one thing to tell her that she's beautiful but it's another thing to make her feel it too.

Anonymous
Love is a promise; Love is a souvenir once given, it is never forgotten; Never let it disappear.

Love is a promise; Love is a souvenir once given, it is never forgotten; Never let it disappear.

John Lennon

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