Quotes that resonate with me in some way.

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.” – Czesław Miłosz

“You’re not born good, you get good.” – Unknown

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, [he] is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” – Jean Paul Sartre

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” – Horace Walpole

“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.” – Rita Levi-Montalcini

“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it’s conformity.” – John Perry Barlow

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.” – Dalai Lama

“It’s better to be lucky than smart, but it’s easier to be smart twice than lucky twice.” – Unknown

“Humor is the only divine quality to be found in humanity.” – Schopenhauer

“It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.” – Albert Einstein

“Modern education is like being taken to the world’s greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.” – Murray Gell-Mann