"People loathe everybody who fails, and yet hate anyone who rises above them; Get used to contempt, if you wish for peace, or to hatred, if you accept the fight... " by Mesa Selimovic ('Death and the Dervish'), translated from Serbian to English by the wonderful LovelyWeather

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." by Margaret Mead

"Coats need humans only so they can move. That's how thing really are: coats, dresses, they all walk, lie, steal, and uniforms arrest and shoot. People are completely trivial in those matters." by Svetislav Basara, translation from Serbian to English by LovelyWeather

"I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script,
which flows from the quill;
I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening,
the night and all she enlivens;
I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns.
I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself;
I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things- to witness that every man always suffers loss." by Mesa Selimovic

"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passion. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable! They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of moral, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us. And yet... And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself." - Lord Henry 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (by Oscar Wilde)