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Love is energy. A concept as integral in our physiology as protein and fat. We cannot live without it.
- J. V. Lopez

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, gives alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
- Walt Whitman

From the Dalai Lama -
∑ Our needs transcend the merely sensual.
∑ Live a good honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
∑ Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
∑ The best relationship is one which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
∑ Love, compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony … ethics is the indispensible interface between my desire to be happy and yours. An ethical act is one which does not harm other's experience or expectation of happiness.
∑ No external factor can create inner peace.