My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

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"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

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"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

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"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

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"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

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"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

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"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."

- Charles M. Schulz

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"Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."

- Dale Evans

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"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."

- Peg Bracken

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"As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

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