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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“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

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Henry Miller

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Wallace Stevens

“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

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

— Epictetus

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Immanuel Kant

“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.”<...

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

— Erich Maria Remarque