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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love, Friendship, Fire

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Good, Attitude

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

Love, Good, Hate

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Work, Today

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

Good, Evil, Place

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Kindness, Simple

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Reality, Illusion, Persistent

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love, War, Hard

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, After, Once

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, End, Mean

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood

Control, Around, Gun

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

Love, Hope, Small

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Experience, Few, Virtues

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar

Friend, Find, Looking

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Life, Tomorrow, Important

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts, Show, Books

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Tried, Policy

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant

Marriage, Good, Respect

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

Angry, Four, Count

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Words, Big

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

Time, Writing, Write

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

Best, Satisfied, Easily

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Time, Special

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt

Character, Care, Others

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

Angry, Before, Speak

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali

Home, Nice, Humble

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Large, Contradict, Contain

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