Audrey Hepburn // "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
Bob Dylan // "You always have to realize that you’re constantly in the state of becoming, you know?"
Albert Camus // "My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love."
Rob Reiner // "The first time I felt real validation, I was 19. I had directed a play and my dad came backstage afterwards…and he never lied to me about any of this stuff…he looked me in the eye and he said, 'That was good. No bullshit.' He said those words to me. It meant everything. The next day I came into the house and we sat in the backyard and he said 'I’m not worried about you. Whatever you choose to do, you’re going to do it great.'"
Charles Bukowski // "Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you."
James Baldwin // "I can’t be a pessimist, because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I’m forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive."
Heath Ledger // "Honesty always gets my attention. Not particularly someone who is honest to me, but someone who is honest with themselves."
Leonard Cohen // "Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in."
Wendell Berry // "I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will."
Audrey Hepburn // "I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment."
David Bowie // "Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Anthony Bourdain // "Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."