Fernando Pessoa

"Politics is the art of making enemies out of strangers."

"Health is a temporary state we mistake for permanence."

"I am many people; forgive me if I contradict myself."

"The night knows secrets the day refuses to acknowledge."

"Poetry is what remains when all else has been forgotten."

"Boredom is the price of understanding too much."

"Destiny is what we call choices we didn't make."

"The past is a country we cannot return to, only remember."

"Loneliness is the only honest relationship with truth."

"To create is to destroy the world as it was."

"Suffering is proof that we are alive and aware."

"The soul is a guest in the body, never the owner."

"Melancholy is the color of all true understanding."

"I wanted to be everything, and that is why I became nothing."

"Authenticity is impossible; we are all masks on masks."

"The best friend is the one you haven't yet betrayed."

"Love is the only disease that teaches us to live."

"Tomorrow never comes; it is always today somewhere else."

"The universe is indifferent to our meaning-making."

"Silence is louder than any noise the world can make."

"To understand is to be forever disappointed."

"Faith is believing in what reason cannot touch."

"Leadership is the burden of choosing for those who cannot."

"Happiness is a lie we tell ourselves on quiet days."

"Success is the most beautiful failure imaginable."

"The heart wants what the mind refuses to accept."

"Beauty is the only truth that doesn't hurt."

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

"Change comes only to those prepared to lose themselves."

"Dreams are the autobiography of the soul."