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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Colette

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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.”<...

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Albert Camus

“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

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Will Durant

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

— Ernest Hemingway