Leonard Cohen // "The older you get...the deeper the love you need."
Akira Kurosawa // "People today have forgotten they're really just part of nature."
Henry Miller // "The idea is, you know, you live from moment to moment...this moment decides the next step. You shouldn’t be five steps ahead, only the very next one. And if you can keep to that, you’re always alright. You see, but people are thinking too far ahead...you know what I mean? Think only what’s right there. Do only what’s right under your nose to do. You know? It’s such a simple thing and people can’t do it, you know."
Elisabeth Kübler Ross // "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
Ernest Hemingway // "If a writer stops observing, he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
Yohji Yamamoto // "Creation is lifework, creation is how...you spend your life, you cannot divide life and the creation, it’s impossible. Shut your eyes, close your ears, don’t use your brain, use your heart, your soul."
Robert Redford // "I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't."
Jim Harrison // "I seek the substantial in life."
Satyajit Ray // "For me, pauses are very important: something happening, waiting for the words, and when the words come, you have that weight."
Jack Kerouac // "Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot."
Albert Einstein // "A hundred times a day, I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people...living and dead...and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received."
Leo Tolstoy // "People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man...because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark, everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold."