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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
          	
          	–Joan Crawford

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"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 
          
          'And this, too, shall pass away.'
          
          How much it expresses! 
          
          How chastening in the hour of pride! - how consoling in the depths of affection! 
          
          'And this, too, shall pass away.'" 
          
          
          
          ~Abraham Lincoln 

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"There is no measuring with time, no year matters and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: 
          
          Patience is everything!"
          
          
          
          ~ Rainer Maria Rilke