“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
— Colette
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
— Wallace Stevens
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
— Simone Weil
“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”
— Karl Popper
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”
— Edward R. Murrow
“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
— Immanuel Kant
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”
— Leo Rosten
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”
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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
— Erich Maria Remarque