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."
Hermann Hesse // "I live in my dreams...that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference."
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."
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."