Charles Bukowski // "I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."
John Steinbeck // "There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you...of kindness and consideration and respect...not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had."
Joni Mitchell // "Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth...depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side...and we become attracted to fluff... But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing."
Nelson Mandela // "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
Christian Dior // "By being natural and sincere, one can often create revolutions without having sought them."
James Dean // "Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul."
Judi Dench // "I thought, how many new lives can we have? Then I thought, as many as we like."
John Lewis // "I have been beaten, my skull fractured, and arrested more than forty times so that each and every person has the right to register and vote. Friends of mine gave their lives. Do your part. Get out there and vote like you’ve never voted before."
Vincent Van Gogh // "It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after."
James Dean // "Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it."
George Orwell // "It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human, that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other."
Leonard Cohen // "It isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply."