Miles Davis // "When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad."
Bill Murray // "The last time doesn’t exist. It’s only this time. And everything is going to be different this time. There’s only now."
Audrey Hepburn // "I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment."
Pina Bausch // "It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please."
William S. Burroughs // "Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence...emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink."
Pier Paolo Pasolini // "I had a profound desire to be alone, because only alone, lost, silent, on foot, can I recognize things."
Maya Angelou // "Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure...and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed."
Noam Chomsky // "Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."
Jack Kerouac // "Everything is ecstasy, inside... Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-endings drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside...and you will remember."
Bill Murray // "The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
Anthony Bourdain // "We will, I hope, be judged, eventually by seemingly small, random acts of kindness and sincerity."
Albert Camus // "Life is short, and it is sinful to waste one’s time. They say I’m active…but being active is still wasting one’s time if in doing one loses oneself. Today is a resting time, and my heart goes off in search of itself."