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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Victor Hugo

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre