“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Leo Rosten

“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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“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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“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“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

“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.”<...

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

— Colette

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Albert Camus

“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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