"This is your life.
Do what you love, and do it often.
If you don’t like something, change it.
If you don’t like your job, quit.
If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV.
If you are looking for the love of your life, stop;
They will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.
Stop over analyzing, life is simple.
All emotions are beautiful.
When you eat, appreciate every last bite.
Open your mind, arms and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences.
Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them.
Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come once, seize them.
Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating.
Life is short.
Live your dream and share your passion."

"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

"Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless centre."

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We handed it all to you on a plate, packaged and pristine. The blandly mass produced trinkets, the omnipresent corporate cafes, the unchallenging auto-tuned media that fills your screens and airwaves. We’ve anaesthetised you like Huxleyan Soma with all the aroma of neatness and control whilst the disorder of your anarchic nature has been pounding at your soul.

We can never be like you so we reduce you to simplicity but you have sparks of divinity. You are married to infinity. We make you fear your imperfections but in fact they are the diamond of your being and they will always offer you unimaginable variations. You have forgotten how to dream because we have removed it from your language. But there are things inside you that are mysterious and impossible to explain and if anything cannot be rationally explained then our machines will not compute. You are being watched, my friends. You are taxed livestock. You are numbers on our screens and you are seeking little other than the peaceful parade of pictures on screens, the tranquil melody of corporate lullaby.

This is an invitation. Put down your newspapers, turn off your TV’s because there is a war being waged for your minds and you’re starting to feel scared. You’re starting to forget just how free and powerful you really are. Deep inside you there is a roaring fire that is not cooled by comfort or tamed by fear; a fire that burns in all things.

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"So, yes, death. When you’re young, you think about it… Well, you don’t really think about it, you know - you have the intelligence of raspberry jam, you’re not thinking about anything. But it’s there, as a motive force, making you do things. Go and get a job. Go and find a flat. Find somebody else. Put them in the flat. Make them stay. Get a toaster. Go to work. Get on the bus. Look at your boss. Say, “fuck”. Sit down. Pick up the thing. Go blank. Scream internally. Go home. Listen to the radio. Look at the other person. Think, “WHY? Why did this happen?”. Go to bed. Lie awake! At night! Get up. Feel groggy. Put the things on - your clothes - whatever they’re called. Go out the door, into work - same thing! Same people, again, it’s real, it is happening, to you. Go home again! Sit, Radio, Dinner - mmm, GARDENING, GARDENING, GARDENING, death."

"I decided to emphasize my differences…If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed."

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

"I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things. But I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come."

"Some choices we make for ourselves in life and some we make for other people. Not because we don’t love, but because we do. The only way we know it’s right is if it lets us stay true to ourselves. But we can’t regret our choices. The past is behind us—all we have is the present. And the future. Whatever that may bring."

"Sometimes you value least the people that love you most until you remember: without them, your life is worth nothing."