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."
Jeff Buckley // "Grace is what matters, in anything... That’s a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you alive and it keeps you open for more understanding."
Gloria Steinem // "I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
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."
Dolly Parton // "When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can because I know l’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try."
Yayoi Kusama // "The earth is a dot, the sun, the stars are all made up of dots. You and me, we are dots."
Dolly Parton // "It’s easy to get lost…but you can’t do that, you’ve got to focus on who you are, what you want, and what your talents are… You’ve got to come to terms with yourself early on. Be true to you, to know what you can do, and if it’s worth it, to get out there and go for it… And don’t let nobody else tell you that you’re wrong. If you believe what you believe about yourself to be true, that’s all you really have to know to be an anchored, decent human being."
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
Jack Kerouac // "I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all."
Henry Miller // "No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world."
Jean-Luc Godard // "He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Bjork // "The minute I need to start pleasing five people, I won’t please anyone. But if I only please myself I might please ten people, you see. The more selfish you are, the more generous you are. As contradictory as that sounds."