Quotes

"We'll hate what we've lost, but we'll love what we find."
- Featherstone by The Paper Kites

"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."
- William Blake

"It could be that there’s only one word, and it’s all we need; it’s here in this pencil."
- W.S. Merwin

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.'"
- Jim Jarmusch

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
- Winnie the Pooh

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
- Unknown

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The earth laughs in flowers."
- E.E. Cummings

"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
- William Blake

"The darkest hour has only 60 minutes."
- Morris Mandel

"If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours."
- a Proverb

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley

"People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it."
- Marsha Norman

"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu

"Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips."
- Unknown

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
- Yves Saint Laurent

"There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone."
- Jerry Garcia

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
- Henry Miller

"Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real."
- Ani Difranco

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E.E. Cummings

"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
- Aldous Huxley

"From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way."
- Bill Watterson

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
- Unknown

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
- E.E. Cummings

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
- Oscar Wilde

"What if I fall and hurt myself, would you know how to fix me? What if I went and lost myself, would you know where to find me? If I forgot who I am, would you please remind me? Oh, 'cause without you things go hazy."
- Hazy by Rosi Golan feat. William Fitzsimmons

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."
- Chuck Palahniuk

"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."
- Viggo Mortensen

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
- D.H. Lawrence

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts

"It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me."
- Ani Difranco

"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..."
- E. E. Cummings

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde

"You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen."
- Ashley Smith

"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time."
- Leo F. Buscaglia

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
- Aldous Huxley

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different."
- Bill Watterson

"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
- Aristotle

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
- Oscar Wilde

"Everything to be imagined is an image of truth."
― William Blake

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
- Ashley Smith

"I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead."
- Viggo Mortensen

"Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall."
- Ani Difranco

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."
- Marsha Norman

"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."
- Bill Watterson

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
- Jim Morrison

"My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
- Unknown

"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box."
- Unknown

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- E.E. Cummings

"...I won't regret, 'cause you can grow flowers from where dirt used to be..."
- Happy Merry by Kate Nash

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
- Unknown

"For Beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
- Audrey Hepburn

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutely boring."
- Marilyn Monroe

"...This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood..."
- On The Radio by Regina Spektor

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."
- Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

"Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant... But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening."
- The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

"You offend reason, Sir... I should like to offend it with you!"
- The motion picture Peter Pan