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“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” John Burroughs

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.” Sherwood Anderson

“Who so loves believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.” Lydia M. Child

“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” Leo Buscaglia

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” Richard Bach 1990 – There’s No Such Place As Far Away

“I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.” Walt Whitman – I Sing the Body Electric

“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.” John Donne

Time moves faster As the day draws nearer And, we are carried along Bouncing rapidly To these days of brevity. Wrinkles are drawn In the appropriate corners Which bring us closer Enriching entirely Those exciting moments of revelry. Links are enforced Through our entire being That allow us to grow Blossoming similarly Well beyond the [...]