You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

O. Henry
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  2. When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. - Jon Krakauer

  3. Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the... - Henri J.m. Nouwen

  4. What I cannot love, I overlook. - Unknown

  5. Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive. - Paulo Coelho

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  1. No friendship is an accident.

  2. He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

  3. I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

  4. And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

  5. If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

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