“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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— George Orwell

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

— Henry Miller

“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.”<...

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

— Epictetus

“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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Rabindranath Tagore