Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them —Steve Maraboli

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Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. ― bell hooks

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain

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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. ― bell hooks

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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.― bell hooks,

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ― Karl Marx

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Love is the absence of judgment. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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