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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Epictetus

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— George Orwell

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”<...

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Will Durant