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" I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. "

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" You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you. "

" We all need each other. "

" Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. "

" Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. "

" Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. "

" My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. "

" Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. "

" When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. "

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

" The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. "

" Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. "

" I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning. "

" I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. "

" I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. "

" All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. "

" I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. "

" The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. "

" I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. "

" I got the copyright for love! "

" What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. "

" I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! "

" I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. "

" Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. "

" Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. "

" Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching. "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. "

" If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. "