Carl Jung
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
Eartha Kitt
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”
William S. Burroughs
“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”
Steven Jay Gould
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
Nietzsche
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Maurice Sendak
“Children do live in fantasy and reality, they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”
Josh Malerman
“The older I get, the more I think the only barometer for intelligence is how kind you are.”
“I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me… the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.”
