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- The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
- Oscar Arias Sanchez (1941 - )
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
- Mother Jones
- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
- Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
- Etty Hillesum
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