“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir