Ray Bradbury // "Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images... Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode."
Carl Jung // "One of the most difficult cases is the intuitive introvert. The intuitive extrovert you find in all kinds: bankers, gamblers… The introvert is more difficult because he has intuitions as to the subjective factor, namely the inner world. And that is very difficult to understand because what he sees are the most uncommon things. He doesn’t like to speak of them if he’s not a fool because people won’t understand it… If the introverted intuitive would speak what he really perceives, practically no one would understand him. He would be misunderstood... They learn to keep things to themselves. You hardly ever hear them talking of these things. This is a great disadvantage. But in another way, it is an enormous advantage… For instance, they come into the presence of somebody they don’t know…and they see inner images. And these inner images give them a more or less complete information about the psychology of the partner... They know an important piece out of the biography of that person. So the introverted intuitive has, in a way, a very difficult life…although one of the most interesting lives."
Nina Simone // "I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why."
River Phoenix // "It’s not about a career. It’s about believing in something, it’s about prosperity. And it’s about caring and empathizing and wanting to create the best, the most true to life, the most real."
Bob Dylan // "Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about will come true."
Jeff Buckley // "The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its hot coals."
Joan Didion // "We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give...we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the necessity of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us... To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves...there lies the great singular power of self-respect."
Björk // "It takes a long time to fully become who you are."
Jean-Luc Godard // "He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Clarice Lispector // "It’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand."
Henry Miller // "I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."
Frida Kahlo // "Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light."