„People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.“

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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„People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another; they might also ask themselves how much poetry of any period they can honestly say that they understand.“
— W. H. Auden
„If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?“
— Tom Hiddleston
„Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.“
— Henry Ford
„Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.“
— Rollo May