“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.”— Ian McKellen, azquotes.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
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“Live like nature. Explode slowly, day by day, from the center outwards. You won’t notice how brightly you burn or how big you’ve grown until you look back. And then you will be amazed.”— pleasefindthis (Iain Thomas), amazon.com
“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour And each pulse, each throb each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘You are still alive’ …So act like it”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“You must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.”— Howard Thurman, amazon.com