“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Immanuel Kant

“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

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

— Doris Lessing

“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

“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

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Anne Tyler