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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

“...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre."
(I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)”
― George Sand, The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
― Anatole France

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister