Salvador Dali // "If you think all the time: I am a genius, you will eventually become a genius."
Howard Thurman // "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Willem Dafoe // "I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you."
Sarah Silverman // "And we're just all made of molecules and we're hurtling through space right now."
John Cage // "The world...is not an object. It is a process."
Pina Bausch // "I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them."
Jaggi Vasudev // "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life."
James Baldwin // "It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. One can give nothing...without giving oneself--that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving."
Oprah Winfrey // "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
Charles Bukowski // "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind...it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean...mockery, isolation...a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that."
Anthony Bourdain // "Recognize excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do."
John Coltrane // "I want to be a force for real good...I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good."