Emma Watson // "In my moments of doubt, I've told myself firmly — If not me, then who? If not now, when?"
Jimi Hendrix // "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Edith Piaf // "All I've done all my life is disobey."
Charles Bukowski // "The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults, while the dream is being strangled. The nights you fight best are when reason gets kicked in the gut, when the chariots of gloom encircle you... The nights you fight best are on a night like this, as you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain, as you rise up against the impossible, as you become a brother to the tender sister of joy and move on, regardless."
Franz Kafka // "I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones..."
Paramahansa Yogananda // "Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress."
Patti Smith // "You know, I cry when people prevail more than when something sad or tragic happens. Sometimes...just to see some kind of joy or reunion or something wonderful happen to people, when our world is so dark and troubled. Joy will make me cry."
Albert Camus // "We all have a weakness for beauty."
William S. Burroughs // "As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape."
William Gibson // "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
Zadie Smith // "My dear, resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. But also resign yourself to the lifelong momentary flashes of happiness that arrive in the seconds between after having completed a journey and before pursuing a new one. For while we, the never satisfied, are lifelong grievers, the rest are lifelong settlers. For while we aim high and constantly fall short, they aim low, and lower, and are constantly satisfied with themselves for having hit such low hanging fruit."
Yoko Ono // "Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."