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

— Henry Miller

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Erich Fromm

“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

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

— Victor Hugo

“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.”<...

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Epictetus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Miguel de Unamuno