Anais Nin // "We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task."
Marilyn Monroe // "Beneath the makeup and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
Donald Glover // "The thing I imagine myself being in the future doesn’t exist yet."
Vincent Van Gogh // "Many people seem to think it foolish...to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
Mahatma Gandhi // "In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Javier Bardem // "When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other. I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination...I have the male and female values in the same body. 'Be a man'...what do you mean by that?"
Leo Tolstoy // "Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
Maurice Ravel // "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
Lucille Ball // "I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn... When I stopped being a prisoner to what I worried was others' opinions of me, I became more confident and free."
John Steinbeck // "Anything that just costs money is cheap."
Rei Kawakubo // "For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty."
Justin Vernon // "We have these intense relationships with our places... But not all of these places are geographical locations so much as sentiments or states of being. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways... How somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?'"