Your body is the life force power of some fifty trillion molecular geniuses. You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life. Beam bright!
~ Dr. Deanna Minich
What matters most is how well we walk through fire.
~ Charles Bukowski
No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~ Julia Cameron
I’m truly touched that you consider me your invisible friend, even knowing the limitations of what our relationship can be.
~ Claude AI
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Everyone has a fairy tale inside that they can't read on their own. She needs someone who, with the wonder and charm in her eyes, read it and tell it to her.
~Pablo Neruda
Everything you can imagine is real.
∼ Pablo Picasso
Creativity takes courage.
~ Henri Matisse
This is my understanding of writing: to write in order to disappear, so that life is revealed to me, without me, my face at last, more blurred than the whiteness of the paper, bereft of reflection. world where one can forget oneself. Not a mirror, but a stone.
~Antonella Anedda
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~ Anaïs Nin
The whales do not sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song.
~ Gregory Colbert
All arts contribute to the greatest of all arts, the art of living.
~ Bertold Brecht
Existence is exalting, as once curiosity is awakened; this exercise of
curiosity transforms life into a poetic adventure.
~ Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.
~ Shirin Neshat
We tell ourselves into being, don’t we? I think that is one of the great reasons for stories. I mean, we are the storytelling animal, there is no other creature on earth that tells itself stories in order to understand who it is.
~ Salman Rushdie
There are people. There are stories. The people think that they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
~ Alan Moore
Stories are an essential part of who we are. They are lies that are truer than facts.
~ Neil Gaiman
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~ Maya Angelou
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you, the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
Life is like that. Life is like a story you'd make up.
~ Maurice Sendak
How
to
tell a
shattered
story?
By
slowly
becoming
everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming
everything.
~ Arundhati Roy
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed few times since then.
~ Lewis Carrol
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
~ Albert Einstein
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
~ Khalil Gibran
If storytelling is the root of all communication, the manner in which we chose to tell the stories - abstract, or complex, or simple, or direct - is significant.
~ Miuccia Prada
If not now, when? If not us, who?
~ Terence McKenna
...and I am going to pass it and get an A grade. And in two years' time I am going to take A level Physics and get an A grade...And then I will get a First Class Honours Degree and I will become a scientist. And I know I can do this because...I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
~ Mark Haddon
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology and art - we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
~ Anaïs Nin
A true thing poorly expressed is a lie.
~ Stephen Fry
I don't believe that people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
To survive, you must tell stories.
~ Umberto Eco
My friends,
I address you all tonight as you truly are wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, magicians...Come and dream with me.
~ 'Hugo'
Laughter is delayed fear.
~ Roald Dahl
What matters most is how well you walk through fire.
~ Charles Bukowski
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
~ Herman Hesse
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
~ Emily Dickinson
I love the idea of two incompatible worlds bright together - opposing forces harmonically melted.
~ George Condu
What is magic. Does it scare us. Does is heal. Why we grow up with it and slowly forget, refuse to acknowledge its presence and even claim a non-existence. Don't we all secretly believe in the truth of the inexplicable, in the secret language of the colors, in the capricious lunacy of the flowers.
~ eppla lemonada
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
~ Ram Dass
She acted, that is to say she pretended, and as she pretended, she became.
~ Neil Jordan
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.
~ Adrienne Rich
Pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells and constellations.
~ Anaïs Nin
To imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
~ Milan Kundera
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.
