Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte de Bussy– Rabutin

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At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul

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Peace is the only battle worth waging – Albert Camus

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace is always beautiful. – Walt Whitman

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela

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There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

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