Charlie Chaplin // "Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing... Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it."
Vincent van Gogh // "I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when...I will make something good everyday, on a regular basis... I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance."
Oscar Wilde // "Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things... Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot... And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property... Personal property hinders individualism at every step."
Mary Oliver // "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Robert Downey Jr. // "Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."
Helen Keller // "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Satchel Paige // "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
Klaus Kinski // "Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything."
Derek Cianfrance // "When I was a kid, I used to always think people lived on islands. I used to think that it was strange, like when people used to come over to my house...that we would all change inside my house, and then when the company would leave, we would all go back to being real again and being truthful... And so I went around my whole life driving down the street, seeing a house, thinking...that's an island and that's an island...and that every family was an isolated set of secrets."
Hazrat Inayat Khan // "Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful."
Audrey Hepburn // "You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else."
Brian Eno // "People...often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull's eye. Of course with everyone else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside."