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Gabriel García Márquez
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Gabriel García Márquez

Janet Fitch
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Ayn Rand
“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
Flavia Weedn

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