Björk // "It takes a long time to fully become who you are."
Anthony Bourdain // "Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."
Albert Camus // "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
Cate Blanchett // "What you risk reveals what you value."
Charlie Chaplin // "Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate... We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness... To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish… Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural... You, the people have the power, the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us use that power. Let us all unite."
Pablo Picasso // "Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
Werner Herzog // "I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."
Heath Ledger // "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one asks you if you are happy."
Julie Delpy // "If there's any kind of magic in this world...it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something."
Lillian Hellman // "I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
James Baldwin // “It is not true that people become liars without knowing it. A liar always knows he is lying, and that is why liars travel in packs: in order to be reassured that the judgement day will never come for them. They need each other for the well-being, the health, the perpetuation of their lie. They have a tacit agreement to guard each other’s secrets, for they have the same secret. That is why all liars are cruel and filthy minded—one’s merely got to listen to their dirty jokes, to what they think is funny, which is also what they think is real.”
Albert Camus // "Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."