John Lennon // "People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself."
Lauren Bacall // "Nothing came easy, everything was worked for."
Marco Pierre White // "There are many times in my life, when I could’ve thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you’re on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn’t matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down...you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow."
Jacqueline Kennedy // "I want to live my life, not record it."
Pablo Picasso // "It takes a long time to become young."
Hayao Miyazaki // "In order to grow...you must betray their expectations."
Albert Camus // "Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone...all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it."
Henry Miller // "What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin...to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it."
Angelina Jolie // "I have never understood why some people are lucky enough to be born with the chance that I had to have this path in life, and why somewhere across the world, there's a woman just like me, same abilities and the same desires and the same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and make better speeches, only she sits in a refugee camp, and she has no voice. She worries about what her children will eat, how to keep them safe and if they'll ever be allowed to return home. I don't know why this is my life and that's hers. I don't understand that. But I will do as my mother asked and I will do the best I can with this life, to be of use..."
Arundhati Roy // "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
Anais Nin // "You live...sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book…or you take a trip…and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure... Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this...without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."
Bob Marley // "Possessions make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever."