Zadie Smith // "I think the hardest thing for anyone is accepting that other people are real as you are. That’s it. Not using them as tools, not using them as examples or things to make yourself feel better or things to get over or under. Just accepting that they are absolutely as real as you are."
Henry Miller // "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem."
Bill Murray // "I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to live."
Jane Goodall // "There’s still a lot worth fighting for."
Jane Goodall // "I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life."
Tennessee Williams // "I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it."
Albert Camus // "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Mahmoud Darwish // "Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will."
Claude Monet // "What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence."
Charlie Chaplin // "Think of the power of the universe…turning the Earth, growing trees. That’s the same power within you...if you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it."
Franz Kafka // "I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep…and say: 'Come with me...we are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.' Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don’t have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much."
Henry Miller // "To make living itself an art, that is the goal."