Gustav Mahler // "The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star, but to go one's way in life...neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Rene Magritte // "I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all of the obligatory sentiments. I also despise the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, radio announcers' voices, aerodynamics, the Boy Scouts...the news, and drunks. I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical."
Dionne Warwick // "I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them."
Mick Jagger // "My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like bricklaying."
Lauren Bacall // Frank Sinatra
John Lennon // "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak...I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
Henry Miller // "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny...serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, or evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
Buster Keaton // "Think slow, act fast."
Philippe Petit // "Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge...and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope."
Iris Apfel // "You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."
Jean-Paul Sartre // "In a word, man must create his own essence. It is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself."
Dalai Lama // "As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings."