“Sometimes we live for many years next to another person and we only see the moment when he or she says goodbye.”

“We don't learn to live for ourselves until we suffer and see that we really don't have anyone.”

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“Settling for the view that illnesses, mental or physical, are primarily genetic allows us to avoid disturbing questions about the nature of the society in which we live. If “science” enables us to ignore poverty or man-made toxins or a frenetic and stressful social culture as contributors to disease, we can look only to simple answers: pharmacological and biological.”

Gabor Maté libro When the Body Says No

Fuente: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“Thanks to the decency of older people we know the concept of love, passion and loyalty.”

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“Beyond romanticism, true love is not the better half we dream of, that will solve our problems or make us feel complete, if we do not contribute the same to the other person.”

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“Death is the voice of conscience, telling us not to waste time, that we are born alone and we die alone.”

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