“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

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

— Epictetus

“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

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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.”<...

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Colette

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Albert Camus

“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...