Satchel Paige // "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
Klaus Kinski // "Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything."
Derek Cianfrance // "When I was a kid, I used to always think people lived on islands. I used to think that it was strange, like when people used to come over to my house...that we would all change inside my house, and then when the company would leave, we would all go back to being real again and being truthful... And so I went around my whole life driving down the street, seeing a house, thinking...that's an island and that's an island...and that every family was an isolated set of secrets."
Hazrat Inayat Khan // "Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful."
Audrey Hepburn // "You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else."
Brian Eno // "People...often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull's eye. Of course with everyone else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside."
Frank Ocean // "We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way."
J.D. Salinger // "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
Anna de Noailles // "Nothing is real but dreams and love."
Thich Nhat Hanh // "Because you are alive, everything is possible."
Joan Didion // "You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."
H.G. Wells // "Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are."