• There was once a man who became unstuck in the world – he took the wind for a map, he took the sky for a clock, and he set off with no destination. He was never lost. - castles in the sky
• I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home. - Bob Dylan
• “If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.” - Jeff Buckley
• “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” — Maya Angelou
• “When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss the fun of getting there. Life is not a race, so take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.”
• "Sensitivity isn’t about being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom." — Jeffrey Scott Buckley
• "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Por que é que havia de me sentir sozinho? Raras vezes na minha vida, desde que me lembro de mim, tive um sentimento de solidão. E não me sinto mal na minha companhia, divertimo-nos muito os dois, eu e eu. Não me aborreço.” — António Lobo Antunes
• "Eu devo reconhecer que ninguém me conhece. Não realmente. Os que mais sabem não sabem da metade. Não deixo todos os segredos escaparem de mim, não mesmo. Uma delicadeza com os outros, eu diria, pois não quero assustar as pessoas com meu passado. Em especial aquelas que continuaram gostando de mim após o pouco que souberam. Mesmo porque aquela, que fez aquilo, não está mais aqui. Eu sou literalmente outra. - Fernanda Young
• “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” — Oscar Wilde
• “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” — Anaïs Nin
• “Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discard, find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
• “Não tinha medo das dificuldades: o que assustava era a obrigação de ter que escolher um caminho. Escolher um caminho significava abandonar outros.” — Paulo Coelho
• “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” — Sarah Ka
• “Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.” — Haruki Murakami
• “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Chris McCandless

nobody can save you but yourself.you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quiet and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself and it will be easy enough to fail so very easily but don’t, don’t, don’t. just watch them listen to them. do you want to be like that? a faceless, mindless, heartless being? do you want to experience death before death? nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. think about it. think about saving your self. your spiritual self. your gut self. your singing magical self and your beautiful self. save it. don’t join the dead-in-spirit. - Charles Bukowski

• “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” — Dead Poets Society
• “Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” — Pablo Neruda
• “It always seems impossible until it is done.” — Nelson Mandela
• If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Van Gogh
• Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees, I will lay on the moss, and breath in the scent of mushrooms, flowers and wet soil. - Le’echappee, LD
• An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. - Goi Nasu
• “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” — Deepak Chopra
• “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” — Veronica A. Shoffstall, After A While
• "Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it." - Imam Ali
• “I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.” - Jaime Gil de Biedma
• "A solidão não é viver só, a solidão é não sermos capazes de fazer companhia a alguém ou a alguma coisa que está dentro de nós, a solidão não é uma árvore no meio de uma planície onde só ela esteja, é a distância entre a seiva profunda e a casca, entre a folha e a raíz." - José Saramago, O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
• "There is no beauty without some strangeness." - Edgar Allan Poe
• "If there’s someone you absolutely miss, you might find yourself talking to them a lot in your mind, creating those fake conversations with them and you answer yourself in their voice in your head. Maybe it’s a girlfriend who dumped you or you know someone who died or that sort of thing, you adopt their personality or the memory of who they were as a means of staying close to them. People talk about spirit, but I have this idea that when we die, we’re gone. All that lives on is our memory and how we affected people, the way we changed people throughout our life. Whether you’ve had a good effect of a bad effect on people, that’s your afterlife—the people who live on after you." - Matt Berninger
• My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.

Tom Waits