Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

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Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

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When the people you love are gone, you're alone.― Keanu Reeves

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. — Charles R. Schwab

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When dealing with toxic people always choose distance over disrespect. ― Germany Kent

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker

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