Terese

“It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!"
- Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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

“Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself”
― Joost A. M. Meerloo

“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer takes any share in his individual phenomenon, because in him knowledge has, as it were, burnt up and consumed the will, so that no will, thus no desire for individual existence, remains in him any more.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I