Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.

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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

- Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another."

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"There is only one desire: to find the promised land and the freedom of a pure love that is without concern for anything else but love."

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"Love seeks only one thing: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."

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"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."

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"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."

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"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."

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"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."

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"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."

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