Random Inspirational Quotes

"I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit?"

"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly."

"A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both."

"My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities."

"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important."

"How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety."

"In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it."

"When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event."

"Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The pines taught me to talk to myself.In that garden I learnedto send myself off.Later there were no gardens."

"I've been the oldest child since before you were born"

". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . ."

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?"

"The question is not how to get cured, but how to live."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness."

"Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels."