“Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“You are beautiful and loved by the universe that made you, with every atom and star moving in perfect alignment to make you, you.”— Iain Thomas, play.google.com
“Some people call me obsessive or driven or lucky or whatever. I’m all of those things. Shouldn’t we all be?”— Kelly Slater, worldsurfleague.com
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”— Langston Hughes, amazon.com
“The goal is to never stay the same. I always want to be changing and evolving. That’s the whole point of life and the whole point of making art is to be constantly moving.”— Sufjan Stevens, fuckyeahsufjanstevens.tumblr.com
“Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.”— Ernst Haas, ernst-haas.com
“I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm”— Woody Allen, nydailynews.com
“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”— Steve Jobs, youtube.com
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”— Richard P. Feynman, goodreads.com
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”— Daniel Franzese, goodreads.com
“I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com