Martin Svoboda

Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Source: The Fire Next Time

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan
Context: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

Luciano De Crescenzo (1928–2019) Italian writer

“Being on the edge isn’t as safe, but the view is better.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/