"Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people."

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"Real love has nothing to do with lust or self-centeredness. In real love, you are not important; the other is important. In love, the other is not your instrument to fulfil your selfish desires; you a…"

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Politics1953

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"The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower"

— Samuel Rutherford

Politics1870–1932

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— Aristotle

Philosophy-384–-322

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