Be daring, be different, be impractical. Be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Cecil Beaton
You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka
Every day; think as you wake up, 'Today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.' ~Dalai Lama