Saramago

"Loneliness is not the absence of people, but the absence of understanding."

"The power to change the world lies in the power to change our minds."

"We are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."

"Music is mathematics made visible and emotion made audible."

"Every revolution begins with a single person saying 'no' to what they are told to accept."

"The dream is more real than the reality we construct around it."

"Patience is not the absence of action, but action taken with wisdom."

"We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

"The pursuit of happiness is often the very thing that prevents us from being happy."

"What we call madness is often just an excess of clarity in an unclear world."

"Relationships are mirrors in which we see ourselves most clearly."

"The body never lies, even when the mind refuses to acknowledge the truth."

"Hope is not optimism; it is the decision to act as if the future matters."

"We are all both victims and perpetrators of the systems we inhabit."

"The only true poverty is the poverty of imagination."

"Work is either a blessing or a curse depending on whether we choose it or it chooses us."

"To live is to constantly reinvent yourself or to constantly betray yourself."

"The past is not dead; it lives in every moment of the present."

"Creativity requires the courage to be imperfect in front of others."

"We are most human when we are most capable of understanding those different from ourselves."

"The price of truth is often loneliness."

"Adventure is simply the art of paying attention to what is right in front of you."

"The greatest teacher is often the one who teaches us to question their teaching."

"There is no greater love than the love that asks nothing in return."

"We live in the tension between who we are and who we wish to become."

"Humor is the only weapon that does not destroy what it laughs at."

"Death is not the opposite of life; it is part of life's completion."

"The beauty of a moment lies in knowing it will not last."

"We are all exiles from some country we never knew existed."

"To forgive is not to forget, but to refuse to be defined by the past."