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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Edward R. Murrow

“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

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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

“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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“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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