Haruki Murakami // "Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart."
Charlie Chaplin // "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... The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! 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."
Paul Newman // "Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality."
Tom Waits // "If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home."
Albert Camus // "I like people who dream or talk to themselves... I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere."
Frida Kahlo // "I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."
Maya Angelou // "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are."
Kurt Vonnegut // "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
Jack Kerouac // "Pain or love or danger makes you real again."
Joni Mitchell // "Here's the thing. You have two options...They're going to crucify you for staying the same. If you change, they're going to crucify you for changing. But staying the same is boring. And change is interesting. So of the two options, I'd rather be...changing."
Charles Bukowski // "Van Gogh writing his brother for paints, Hemingway testing his shotgun...Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town. The impossibility of being human. Burroughs killing his wife with a gun, Mailer stabbing his. The impossibility of being human. Maupassant going mad in a rowboat, Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot...Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato...Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops...The impossibility, the impossibility. Nietzsche gone totally mad. The impossibility of being human, all too human. This breathing, in and out, out and in. These punks, these cowards, these champions, these mad dogs of glory, moving this little bit of light toward us, impossibly."
Bruce Lee // "If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition...you are not understanding yourself."