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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Colette

“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

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

— Epictetus

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

— Leo Rosten

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Albert Camus

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Gertrude Stein

“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

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

— Victor Hugo