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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Colette

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Epictetus

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

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

— George Orwell

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

— Simone Weil

“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.”<...

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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