Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

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There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

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Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. ― Honoré de Balzac

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I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ― Douglas Coupland

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