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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Simone Weil

“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

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“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

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Epictetus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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