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

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

“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.”<...

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

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

— Epictetus

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

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

— Gertrude Stein

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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

— Colette

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Leo Rosten

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Carl Jung

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood