“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
— Doris Lessing
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
— Colette
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“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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“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 desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
— Margaret Atwood
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”
— Leo Rosten
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
“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.”<...
“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
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
— Will Durant
“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
— Henry Miller
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky