Joan Didion // "I'm not telling you to make the world a better place, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment."
Debbie Harry // "To be an artist today, you have to be as much a businessman to succeed...you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft."
Bruce Springsteen // "Is there anybody alive out there?"
Paul Newman // Joanne Woodward
Robert Altman // "My advice would be: never take advice from anybody... If you take advice, you're going to go the way that the person that's giving you the advice went...and they didn't go very far or they wouldn't be giving you the advice."
Carl Jung // "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams...who looks inside, awakens."
Gloria Steinem // "When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts."
Nelson Mandela // "Part of being optimistic is keeping ones head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair." 🇫🇷
John F. Kennedy // "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on." 🇫🇷
Martin Luther King Jr. // "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." 🇫🇷
Winston Churchill // "Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe."
Joey Ramone // "I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me."