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“Fake it till you feel it”
― Gemma Burgess

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“La soledad es un agudo dolor generalizado. No se le puede aislar en una sola parte del cuerpo.”
― Billy Hayes, Midnight Express

“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom

“There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor”
― Nelson Mandela

“He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World