Franz Kafka // "I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones..."
Paramahansa Yogananda // "Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress."
Patti Smith // "You know, I cry when people prevail more than when something sad or tragic happens. Sometimes...just to see some kind of joy or reunion or something wonderful happen to people, when our world is so dark and troubled. Joy will make me cry."
Albert Camus // "We all have a weakness for beauty."
William S. Burroughs // "As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape."
William Gibson // "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
Zadie Smith // "My dear, resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. But also resign yourself to the lifelong momentary flashes of happiness that arrive in the seconds between after having completed a journey and before pursuing a new one. For while we, the never satisfied, are lifelong grievers, the rest are lifelong settlers. For while we aim high and constantly fall short, they aim low, and lower, and are constantly satisfied with themselves for having hit such low hanging fruit."
Yoko Ono // "Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."
Agnes Martin // "Happiness...is everywhere. When we are unhappy it is because something is covering our minds and we are not able to be aware of happiness. When the difficulty is past, we find happiness again... Happiness is unattached. Always the same. It does not appear and disappear. It is not sometimes more and sometimes less. It is our awareness of happiness that goes up and down. Happiness is our real condition. It is reality. It is life."
Ernest Hemingway // "Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive... You will be dead soon enough."
Wim Wenders // "The more opinions you have, the less you see."
Angela Merkel // "Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks these days."