Arnold Schwarzenegger // "Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. You'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings that you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house..."
Hunter S. Thompson // "But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life."
Alan Watts // "What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all."
Vivienne Westwood // "Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70."
Norman Mailer // "The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable."
Joan Baez // "I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"
Friedensreich Hundertwasser // "The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line."
Sam Shepard // "I mean, if anybody wants to understand who I am, they just read my plays...or read my books... Because as soon as you start talking about your art and examining it and analyzing it, you kill it. You absolutely kill it...So long as they continue to question it, and so long as it continues to put them in the unknown and in the questioning mood, I think it has value. When they all of a sudden say, "Oh, I get it, I understand it, that's what it's all about," you're dead as an artist."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry // "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."
Mortimer J. Adler // "Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack the resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually."
Sylvia Plath // "Remember, remember, this is now...and now...and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."
Hermann Hesse // "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again."