Ernest Hemingway // "Don’t ever kid yourself about loving someone. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. What you have...whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
Alberto Giacometti // "The more I work, the more I see things differently...everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful."
John Cassavetes // "Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough."
Penelope Cruz // "I miss the time when people wrote letters to each other...I belong to another age."
Hunter S. Thompson // "Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on... So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything... The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all... We do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES. But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors...but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal... Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
Jack Kerouac // "Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world, let men work and love and fight it off."
Jim Morrison // "How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? People claim they want to be free...everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit. People are terrified to be set free, they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security. How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"
Frida Kahlo // "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."
Toni Morrison // "I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are."
Jean Cocteau // "My hair has always grown in all directions and my teeth too and my beard. My nerves and my soul must surely grow in the same way. That is what makes me incomprehensible to those who grow all in one direction...they do not know how to take me. This organic disorder is a safeguard for me because it keeps the thoughtless at distance."
Bill Murray // "The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
Björk // "In my most natural state, I'll be introverted for say, six days in a row, and then on the seventh day I'll become very extroverted... Then I'll have to go back inside myself... It's something I can't really control. It's a bit like the ocean and the tides."