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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— George Orwell

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Henry Miller

“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

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Epictetus

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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