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

— Vincent van Gogh

“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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Will Durant

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Orwell

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“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

“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...

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“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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