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«Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Love
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Keywords:
all important,
for each person,
happiness,
important,
important person,
in person,
love,
More,
of each person,
of her own,
on her own,
other,
own,
person,
Person to person,
Than,
the Other,
when
«Live your own life, for you will die your own death»
«Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.»
Author: Robert Heinlein
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About:
Happiness,
Love,
Reciprocity
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Keywords:
another,
condition,
essential,
essential condition,
for each person,
happiness,
in condition,
in person,
is,
love,
of each person,
of her own,
on her own,
own,
person,
Person to person,
The
«I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.»
Author: Samuel Osgood
(
Politician)
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About:
Character,
Connection,
Respect,
Sensations
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Keywords:
by hand,
causes,
cause of a,
grasp,
grasps,
hand,
handing,
handing over,
hand out,
hand to hand,
love,
meets,
meet up with,
My own,
of her own,
on hand,
on her own,
out of hand,
own,
sensation,
some,
that,
The Met,
with
«Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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About:
Individuality,
Strength
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Keywords:
according,
accords,
every,
him,
in accord,
judge,
let,
others,
own,
read,
standards,
Tell
«In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
and then,
believe,
create,
distinction,
distinctions,
East,
East Is East,
East of,
In the,
minds,
no.,
no,
of her own,
of their own,
on her own,
out,
outs,
own,
people,
sky,
their,
Them,
then,
there,
there is,
There is no,
to be,
true,
West
«It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
against,
come,
East,
East Is East,
East of,
external,
externals,
foolish,
from,
from the,
guard,
inner,
inner world,
leave,
leave out,
left most,
mind,
misfortunes,
of one mind,
one,
One World,
on guard,
on leave,
on your guard,
originate,
originate in,
originating,
own,
take leave,
therefore,
they,
The East,
the West,
think,
uncontrolled,
West,
within,
world,
wrong,
wronging
«He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
beings,
Everything,
experiences,
eye,
eyeing,
Eye for an eye,
His,
impartial,
in all,
In My Eyes,
life,
looks,
own,
Seeing Eye,
sees,
see eye to eye,
self,
unity,
WHO,
with
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Did,
French,
idiots,
language,
languages of,
making,
never,
Other languages,
own,
Paris,
simply,
speaking in,
speaks in,
speak up,
spoke,
spoken language,
stared,
stares,
succeed,
their,
Their language,
their own language,
Them,
they,
The Idiot,
those,
understand,
when