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

— Erich Fromm

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Henry Miller

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Wallace Stevens

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Carl Jung

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Erich Fromm

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Epictetus