Fernando Pessoa

"Humor is crying in a different key."

"The strongest bonds are formed in shared silence."

"Adventure awaits only those willing to disappoint themselves."

"I am the distance between what I am and what I wish to be."

"I am a reader and I read everything, but I am also a skeptic of everything I read."

"The true traveler is the one who wanders without destination."

"To be great, one must first learn to be small."

"Everything that is not thought is nothing more than silence."

"I have sought many things, but I have found none that satisfied me completely."

"The soul that refuses to dream dies in the ordinary."

"We are all strangers to ourselves, wearing masks we call identity."

"To love is to lose control, and I have never been comfortable with that."

"Success is nothing but the accumulation of small, forgotten victories."

"I think, therefore I doubt, and in doubt I am truly myself."

"The greatest friendship is one where both remain silent and yet understand."

"Time does not pass; we pass through time like shadows."

"To understand beauty, one must first understand suffering."

"Freedom is not the absence of chains but their transcendence."

"Every goodbye contains a thousand unspoken things."

"The artist is someone who mistakes confusion for clarity."

"Patience is the art of expecting without hope."

"I have learned more from my failures than from any success."

"Nature speaks only to those who have learned to listen in silence."

"The music of life plays whether we listen or not."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but its complete acceptance."

"In solitude, I find the company of my infinite selves."

"Change is the only permanence, yet we cling to what will not remain."

"The scholar knows many things; the wise knows what matters."

"Hope is a beautiful disease that keeps us alive."

"To create is to betray one's former self."