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Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
Author
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St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
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