Patrick Stewart // "You will never achieve success by insuring against failure…you have to take risks. You have to be brave. You have to step into the unknown. You have to jump off the edge of the cliff… I don’t judge myself. I used to do that so much… 'That’s not good enough. You could’ve done that differently. You could’ve done it better.' That gets in the way of spontaneity and real feeling coming into something… I’m braver now."
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva // "There’s no use in trying to stop my ideas. They’re already in the air, and you can’t imprison them. There’s no point in trying to stop my dreams because when I stop dreaming I’ll be dreaming through your minds and dreams…my heart will be beating through yours."
Sade Adu // "Whatever I’m doing, I’m in that moment and I’m doing it. The rest of the world’s lost."
Jorge Luis Borges // "For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t."
Leonard Cohen // "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Wendell Berry // "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."
Ernest Hemingway // "When people talk, listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice."
Anais Nin // "I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
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."