‘The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.’
- Joseph Campbell
‘As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.’
- Henry David Thoreau
‘Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.’
- Emile M. Cioran
‘Work to survive; survive by consuming; survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete’
- Raoul Vaneigem
‘I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.’
- Henry David Thoreau
‘The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.’
- Felix Adler
‘One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche
‘I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.’
- Colin Raye
‘Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.’
- Anais Nin
‘We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.’
- Winston Churchill
