"To be an artist is to believe in life." ...Henry Moore

"I've found great wisdom in always aiming for the stars, and I've found an even greater wisdom in cheerfully accepting failure if I only reached the moon.

-T. Robbins

Simplicity, Myra, voluntary simplicity. Simplicity means freedom."

- Henry H. Lightcap (E. Abbey)​

"For every uphill, there's a downhill."

-M. Hodges

"We run things...not...Things run we."

-Jamaican saying

"...what matters most is how you walk through the fire."

-C. Bukowski

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

-Pablo Neruda

"I took a freight train to be my friend."

-John Lee Hooker

"The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled. - T. Robbins

I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats."

-Eckhart Tolle

"The refrigerator was one of the things my mother prayed to. She said that a cold beer could make you love a refrigerator." -Jennifer Clement

"I'm working real steady, I'm working real hard, I'm building a monster in my backyard."

-D. Byrne

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne

"I was tired of seeing the Graces depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. -L. Penny