“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
— Colette
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
— Anne Tyler
“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
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
— Doris Lessing
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
— Erich Maria Remarque
“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
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
— Will Durant
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“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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“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“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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“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
— Wallace Stevens
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre