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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”<...

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Gertrude Stein

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Epictetus

“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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