When you love someone, you love them as the person they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.

Haruki Murakami

Forgive them even if they are not sorry.

Julian Casablancas

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Charles F. Kettering

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Honesty plus love will get you through most situations.

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