Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

- Leo Tolstoy

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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."

- Leo Tolstoy

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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."

- Leo Tolstoy

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"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

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"People get built different. We don’t have to figure it out. We just have to respect it."

- Princess Bubblegum

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"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

- Bryant McGill

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