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Instead of trying to be a rock for others, focus on creating small spaces of ease and comfort – whether through a listening ear, a gentle touch, or a thoughtful gesture – allowing love to emerge from these quiet moments, rather than relying on grand declarations or heroic acts.",{"id":24,"quote_text":25,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":26,"source":27,"quote_tag":28,"commentary":9},3310188,"The round-backed cottages clung to the earth like long animals whose folded heads were always to the mountain. Lying thus to the slopes they were part of the rhythm of the land itself... There were little herds of these cottages at long intervals, and every now and then a cottage by itself like a wandered beast...",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":9},3310169,"And whenever the prime concern in life is money-making, then you have trickery and brutality and wrong. I’m saying that, not from what I have heard, but from what I have observed in a long life among our own folk.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3310148,"We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. 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