Og Mandino
“Do all things with love.”
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Soren Kierkegaard
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
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Author Unknown
“Hugs are the universal medicine.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Hatred can be overcome only by love.”
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Mary Baker Eddy
“Jealousy is the grave of affection”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
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Author Unknown
“A hug is worth a thousand words.”
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Author Unknown
“A hug is a handshake from the heart.”
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Karen Sunde
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
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1 John 4:19
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
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Author Unknown
“A hug is the shortest distance between friends.”
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Jean Paul F. Richter
“Paradise is always where love dwells.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
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1 Peter 1:22
“See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”
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Author Unknown
“Time + Touch + Talk + Teach = Love”
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Leo Buscaglia
“Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
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Author Unknown
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
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Eva Burrows
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
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Felix Adler
“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.”
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Anthony Brandt
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
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Author Unknown
“You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.”
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Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
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Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
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George Sand
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
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Author Unknown
“Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it a proper meaning.”
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Jean Anouilh
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
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Wills Cather
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
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John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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Author Unknown
“People don't care what you do for them but how you make feel. “
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Roy Croft
“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
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Frank A. Clark
“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”
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Bil Keane
“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
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C.T. Davis
“One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.”
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Author Unknown
"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
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Benjamin Franklin
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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La Rochefoucauld
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
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Houssaye
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
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St. Augustine
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
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Lawrence Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
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Thoreau
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
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Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
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Oscar Hammerstein II
“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”
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Audrey Hepburn
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
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George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
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Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Elizabeth Browning
“Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
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Michael Leunig
“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
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Theodore Hesburgh
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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John 13:35
“By this all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
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Harold Voth
"Hugging can lift depression. It breathes fresh life into a tired body and makes you feel younger and more vibrant.
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Robert Heinlein
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
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John 13:34
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
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Sam Keen
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
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Galatians 5:14
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
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Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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C.S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
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Nan Fairbrother
“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.”
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John 15:10
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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C. S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
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Saint-Exupery
""Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
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Author Unknown
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
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1 Thessalonians 4:9
“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.”
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Author Unknown
“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office”
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Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you”
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Orlando A. Battista
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”
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M. Grundler
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
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Joseph Smith
“It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.”
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David B. Haight
“Someone has written, “Love is a verb.” It requires doing—not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?”
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David B. Haight
"Someone has written, "Love is a verb." It requires doing--not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed."
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William Arthur Ward
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
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Jim Rohn
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”
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Rosaleen Dickson
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
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T.S. Eliot
“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
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John Lubbock
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
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Cary Grant
“It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.”
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William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.”
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Author Unknown
“One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is”
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H. Burke Peterson
“Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self-confidence that comes from truly being loved. Prisons and other institutions, even some of our own homes, are filled with those who have been starved for affection.”
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Walter Anderson
“If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind…cast-off and everyday clothing.”
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Giuseppe Mazzini
“The family is the country of the heart. There is an angel in the family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness”
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Russell M. Nelson
“Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, “I love you, sweetheart.” She responded rather blandly: “I know.” I asked, “How do you know that I love you?” Because! You’re my grandfather!”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.”
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James E. Faust
“Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, “Son, I love you,” but he showed it in a thousand ways which were more eloquent than words. He rarely missed a practice, a game, a race, or any activity in which his sons participated.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, ‘Mother, I truly love you’? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, ‘I love you.’”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“My plea—and I wish I were more eloquent in voicing it—is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight. They need happiness. They need love and nurture. They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”
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James E. Faust
“LeGrand Richards shared with us the tender relationship he had with his father. Said he, ‘I walked into my father’s apartment when he was just about ninety,…and as I opened the door, he stood up and walked toward me and took me in his arms and hugged me and kissed me. He always did that…Taking me in his arms and calling me by my kid name, he said, ‘Grandy, my boy, I love you.’”
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Elizabeth R. McAnarney
“Adolescents need touch to facilitate communication and convey caring. When children are no longer held and comforted by their parents, they may turn to their peers instead. There is almost no data on this, but I wonder if the increase in very young teenage pregnancy comes form the need to be held. They may be using sex for a nonsexual purpose.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, ‘Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.’ He grinned and jokingly said, ‘Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I’ll let you know.’ It’s hard to overuse the expression, ‘I love you.’ Use it daily.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one’s thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.”
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