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

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

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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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“We live in such a degenerate and disturbed society that living too long can be destructive.”

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“Thinking that the person you love belongs to you is sick, harmful and it is not love, but a limited toxic relationship. Because no one belongs to anyone, we are independent, free and there is no other owner than ourselves.”

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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