Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To let things go.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen, I think there's evil in the world, but I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.
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Christi Parsons, James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the White House, The White House (Obama administration archive), 18 January 2017
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Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
That materialistic things will not make you happy.
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To still be working.
Having no purpose.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
Going through a divorce.
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