Fernando Pessoa

"I am not I; I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see."

"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you."

"The worst prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."

"I love without knowing how, or what, or even if I exist."

"Everything is worth it if the soul is not small."

"What we call madness is the inability to exchange ideas."

"The only reality is the present instant."

"I divided myself into several people so that I could be alone."

"Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves."

"Art is the reconstitution of things as they are."

"To know oneself is to accept oneself."

"I want to be remembered for the dreams I achieved."

"Living is like working with a blunt tool."

"We are all actors, but only some of us know it."

"Success is having what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have."

"The heart wants what it wants—or else it does not care."

"All the world's a stage, and all the people merely players."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

"Believe in yourself and you're unstoppable."

"The only truth is the journey."

"Anything is possible if you imagine it."

"I am afraid of failing at the things I want."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"To dream is to think; to think is to live."

"Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes."

"What matters is the meaning we give to things."

"I feel a strange nostalgia for a past I've never known."

"Every moment is a new possibility."

"The best way to understand ourselves is through art."

"I travel within myself."