Chuck Palahniuk // "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."
Tom Waits // "Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money."
Barack Obama // "I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict... My vision is right...it may not always win the day in the short-term...but I'm confident it will win the day in the long-term. Because societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are going to be more successful than societies that don't. That's my strong belief."
Elvis Presley // "Do something worth remembering."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live... The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving... that is the real basis of our problem."
Rick Owens // "The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool."
Stephen Hawking // "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
Lauren Bacall // "You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."
John Burroughs // "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
Leonard Cohen // "We don’t want to live a frivolous life, we don’t want to live a superficial life. We want to be serious with each other, with our friends, with our work. That doesn’t necessarily mean gloomy or grim, but seriousness...is something that we are deeply hungry for, to take ourselves seriously and to be able to enjoy the nourishment of seriousness, that gravity, that weight."
Vincent Van Gogh // "Many people seem to think it foolish...to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, "What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now." Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
Carl Jung // "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."