Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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William Shakespeare
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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Maya Angelou
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Maya Angelou
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then...
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Thomas Merton
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Doris Lessing
More Quotes By J.E.B. Spredemann
Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.
...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.
He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.
It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.
