100 Quotes About Beginning

The beginning of anything — a relationship, a job, a novel, or a new idea — can be exciting and stimulating. When we enter into something new, we’re often filled with optimism and hope that things will work out in our favor. But they don’t always. These beginnings quotes below will help you get through the rough times and motivate you toward the brighter future ahead.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long...
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When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. Shannon L. Alder
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May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire. D. Simone
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new...
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L.m. Montgomery
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always Dante Alighieri
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't...
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Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. Unknown
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According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply. Walpola Rahula
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The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase. Marty Rubin
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Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love. Shannon L. Alder
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden...
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story. Ann Voskamp
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In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past. Dragos Bratasanu
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A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading! Shannon L. Alder
The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is...
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The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange:a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat, and maybe some cocoa and something to eat. I’ll warn you, of course, before we commence, my story is eerie and full of suspense, brimming with danger and narrow escapes, and creatures of many remarkable shapes. Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more, and creatures you’ve not even heard of before. And faraway places? There’s plenty of those! (And menacing villains to tingle your toes.) So ready your mettle and steady your heart. It’s time for my story’s mysterious start.. Robert Paul Weston
Since when,
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Since when, " he asked, " Are the first line and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends? Seamus Heaney
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds...
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Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. Shannon L. Alder
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Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first. Shannon L. Alder
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You wish you could’ve learned to play piano. You wish you could’ve started drawing when you were young. You wish you could’ve figured out who you wanted to be before you graduated college. You wish you could’ve learned to love yourself sooner. Well you know what? You didn’t. And that’s just something you’re going to have to learn to deal with. But just because you didn’t do it sooner, doesn’t mean you can’t start now. . Daren Colbert
A rose started off a bud, a bird started off...
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A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed. Matshona Dhliwayo
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An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings. Matshona Dhliwayo
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...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. Lois Lowry
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Trees are where Nature has simply begun Will Advise
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You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives. Shannon L. Alder
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In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy. Debasish Mridha
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You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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You see the bird and you see its flight. You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.. Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be. If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger. . Vincent Van Gogh
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There's so much to write. Where should I start? I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:' You should start where you are Ruth Ozeki
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All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. Shannon L. Alder
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...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ... John Geddes
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We had been texting for exactly thirteen minutes, asking random questions, trying to figure out if we knew any of the same people, or if we liked the same kind of music--the usual interview process you go through when you're trying to get the job as boyfriend. Jason Reynolds
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COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME! ”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here and there among the shadowed boughs one flower had opened early, rose and white, like a faint star. Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running; hearing the call she did not come at once, but made a long circle before she turned her face toward home. The mother waiting in the doorway of the hut, with the firelight behind her, watched the tiny figure running and bobbing like a bit of thistledown blown over the darkening grass beneath the trees. Unknown
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We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing. Nikki Rowe
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If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable. Richelle E. Goodrich
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What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name. Garima Mittal
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But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk. Jennifer E. Smith
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Release-For yearsthey told you tosit. Stay. Now they open the doorand tell you toget up. Leave. Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way? Keelie Breanna
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In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. Ellen Hopkins
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And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story. Arianna Huffington
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A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door. Nikki Rowe
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All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings. Justin Cronin
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It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can’t have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle. Thomas Lloyd Qualls
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I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it. S. Jane Sloat
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They kiss. The kiss that will change everything. Elliot will never have been happier than with this girl, funny, down to earth and bohemian, who dreamed of remaking the world as she ate her pizza. And Ilena will never have felt more beautiful than through the gaze of this mysterious and appealing boy that fate had thrown in her path in such a strange way. Guillaume Musso
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It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They're like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from time to time. Order and chaos frequently intermingle and overlap, the same as beginnings and endings. Things are often more complicated, or more simple, than they seem. Often it depends on your angle. I think that telling a story is a way of trying to make life's complexity more comprehensible. It's a way of trying to separate order from chaos, patterns from pandemonium. Gavin Extence
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Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. Robin Hobb
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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. Hannah Arendt
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But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of love? We have been spared all its trouble, and that is why it has slipped in among our distractions, as a piece of real lace will sometimes fall into a child's toy-box and please him and no longer please him, and finally it lies there among the broken and dismembered toys, more wretched than any of them. We have been spoiled by superficial pleasures like dilettantes, and are looked upon as masters. But what if we despised our successes? What if we started from the very outset to learn the task of love, which has always been done for us? What if we went ahead and became beginners, now that much is changing? . Rainer Maria Rilke
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And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities. Toni Sorenson
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The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival. Nathan Englander
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And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street. Thomas Pynchon
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Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main, Sailors and their sweethearts all agree. Neon signs of red and green Shine upon the friendly scene, Welcoming you in from off the sea. Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true: Nickel beers that sparkle like champagne, Barmaids who all love to screw, All of them reminding you It's Christmas Eve on old East Main. Thomas Pynchon
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It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat. This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought. William S. Burroughs
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Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end. Will Advise
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Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark’s closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. “I’m off to make war, so that you may have love. Zechariah Barrett
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Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. Ann Leckie
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I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean. T.C. Boyle
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When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals. Lorii Myers
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Endings and beginnings look just the same. Patricia Robin Woodruff
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There's never a beginning for eternity. Toba Beta
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Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.  Crystal Woods
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A long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents, someone introduced us at a party. Billy Collins
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But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning. Aimee Friedman
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It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day. Steve Yarbrough
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If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal. Neil Gaiman
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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick. Mary Wilson Little
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Love at first sight is easy to understand it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Sam Levenson
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. W. Somerset Maugham
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. AnneSophie Swetchine
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No this trick won't work... . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Albert Einstein
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Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D. H. Lawrence
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Honore De Balzac
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. Dorothy Parker
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Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast. Mark Twain
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Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end. Anonymous
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker
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I believe in love but I don't sit around waiting for it. Renee Zellweger
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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. Charles Baudelaire
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I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. Fitzwilliam Darcy
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy. Bertrand Russell
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The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
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It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. Clark Gable
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You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
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How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning. Thomas Campbell
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Love is a deep well from which you may drink often but into which you may fall but once. Ellye Howell Glover
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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Jule Renard
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. Woody Allen
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Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new. Unknown