Jeanne Moreau // "I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally...they expect everyone to be like them."
Oscar Wilde // "Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."
Miles Davis // "Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
Ernest Hemingway // "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
David Lynch // "Just slow things down and it becomes more beautiful."
Anne Sexton // "Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
T.S. Eliot // "What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
Doris Lessing // "Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated... What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture... You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors... Those of you who are more robust and individual...will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself, educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always...that they are being molded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
Anne Frank // "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
Dalai Lama // "This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."
Jack Kerouac // "The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with heads cut off. I will try to teach it but it will be in vain, s’why I’ll end up in a shack praying and being cool and singing by my woodstove making pancakes."
Charles Bukowski // "There were these people on the ground, they were reaching up their arms and trying to pull me down but they couldn't do it. I felt like pissing on them. They were so jealous. All they had to do was to work their way slowly up to it as I had done. Such people think success grows on trees. You and I, we know better."