Brave Quote by Todd Gitlin

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to…

— Anonymous

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is…

— Henry Miller

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the…

— Michel Houellebecq

The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives…

— Sam Keen

Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back…

— David Longstreth

“I think we all know—somewhere deep inside, somewhere we don’t want to explore, somewhere maybe close to the subconscious—that the chances of us living…

— James Han Mattson

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of…

— Russell Lynes

“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of…

— Eugène Ionesco

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me,…

— Julian Lennon

“I believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines…

— Shauna Niequist

Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves…

— Surya Das