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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Fromm

“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

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“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.”<...

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

— Colette

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Doris Lessing

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Miguel de Unamuno