Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
You only get out what you put in. Karma – it all comes round.
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Maurice Sendak
Children's author and illustrator
Yes. I'm not unhappy about becoming old. I'm not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ... But, you know, there's something I'm finding out as I'm aging that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they're beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music.
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Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR — recorded by telephone in September 2011, his last interview, 20 September 2011
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Richard Coles
British musician, writer, presenter and priest
Don’t overcook pasta.
Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
To trust in the process.
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A world without music.
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