Les alcooliques s’enfoncent volontiers dans un monde à eux, qui ressemble au monde véritable, mais avec un certain décalage qu’il n’est pas toujours facile de déceler. Et eux aussi sont sincères.


“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“We have the option to either empower our existence with love, purpose, and beauty, or allow ourselves to become slaves to ignorance and agony.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

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