Fernando Pessoa

"We are interested in others only to the extent that they reflect back our own image."

"Wisdom is the ability to recognize one's own lack of wisdom."

"I carry within me all the dreams of humanity."

"The supreme art is to influence others."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"To forget is to forgive; to forgive is to be free."

"The greatest invention of the mind is doubt."

"I feel everything in a confused way, as if all things were running their fingers over my nerves."

"Action requires blindness. We act because we don't see."

"The only real alienation is the failure to understand."

"Love is the only beautiful thing about being human."

"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience."

"Hope is a cruel mistress that keeps us alive."

"The truth is a closed fist; lies are an open hand that feeds you."

"I learned that the best way to know someone is to argue with them."

"Mountains are poetry and beauty are the best company."

"I have all the qualities that would make life insufferable to others."

"Patience is the art of waiting without suffering."

"The world is a series of connected events."

"To understand is to change oneself."

"The greatest pleasure is not gaining but appreciating what we have."

"I seek nothing. I find everything."

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"The strength of the weak is despair."

"Life is what we dream. Dreams are life made visible."

"Fear is the only force that truly unites humanity."

"To imagine is to create; to create is to exist."

"The greatest traveler is the one who imagines."

"I believe in nothing, yet I believe in everything."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."