"Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it."

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Source : Lisa Scottoline (2009). “Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.285, Macmillan

Lisa Scottoline

#Love Is Quotes #Giving Quotes

“In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.”
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.”
“All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.”
“Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.”
“Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.”
“But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.”
“The only real person you need to know is you.”

Source : Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969
“If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.”

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