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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez We’ll grow old waiting.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez
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Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusConfucius I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Elon MuskElon Musk The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
Robin WilliamsRobin Williams It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EpictetusEpictetus We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla We can help the world live without fear. It’s our only hope, without hope we are lost.
Michael JacksonMichael Jackson We scared of losing something that we never found.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela