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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French philosopher

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”

Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian

“Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“I cannot love I. I can only love you”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The brain speculates but the heart knows.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

Autobiography

“When the situation is obscure, attack.”

Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general

As quoted in Waging Business Warfare (1988) David J. Rogers, p. 236

“Think for yourself and question authority.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.