“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”— Iggy Pop, rollingstone.com
“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, ‘It’s okay.’ It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s okay to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.”— Hayley Williams, huffingtonpost.com
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”— Eric Hoffer, amazon.com
“Success is how you feel about what you’re doing. You have to please yourself and trust your instincts. You can’t go by what other people think.”— Calvin Klein, wwd.com
“Lack of love. Sleep, then nightmare. Paper everywhere. Trivial bits of paper. Nothing ever done. Sure, sure, sure. Today I will walk in the sun. I will simply walk in the sun.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s high time to rescue ‘intelligent design’ from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond…”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com