“To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so.”
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”
- Dr Gabor Maté

“Intuition does not look at things as they are. That is anathema to the intuition. It looks ever so shortly at things as they are, and makes off into an unconscious process at the end in which he will see something nobody else will see.”
- C.G. Jung, The Houston Films, Interview n.2

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“Everything dies baby that's a fact
 But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.”
-Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City

“Just remember, you’re in a strong position!”
-Brendon Bostock

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realise it is play.”
- Alan Watts

“Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.”
- Joseph Beuyers

“God walks out of the room when you’re thinking about money.”
- Quincy Jones

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
- Albert Einstein

“When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”
- Michelle Obama

“Art is the highest form of hope.”
- Gerhard Richter

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work”
- Mary Oliver. 

“The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from.”
- Lynda Barry

”None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that everyday. That’s it.”
- Laurie Anderson