| "People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all ... Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them and hide them you, you're letting society destroy your reality." Jim Morrison |
| "Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like your trying to steal their most precious possession." Jim Morrison |
| "Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth, but it's usually too battered with rules to be heard. We cripple ourselves with lies. Most people have no idea of what they're missing, our society places a supreme value on control, on hiding what you feel. It mocks primitive culture and prides itself on the suppression of natural instincts and impulses." Jim Morrison |
| "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him - unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you." Jim Morrison |
| "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| THE WISE ONCE SAID... |
| "Not infrequently, one encounters copies of important people; and, as with paintings, most people prefer the copy to the original." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Behold the superflous. They are always sick. They vomit their gall and call it a newspaper." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." Henry David Thoreau |
| "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix |
| "There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any medium and be lost." Marth Graham |
| "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Oscar Wilde |
| "There is room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you're your own person." Tori Amos |
| "Living meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness." Milan Kundera |
| "Music is the art that comes closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication." Milan Kundera |
| "Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound." Milan Kundera |
| "You who read me -- are you certain you understand my language?" Jorge Luis Borges |
| "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau |
| "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau |
| "Yet a nearer group there are, beings born under the same star, and bound with us in a common destiny. These are not mere acquaintances, mere freinds, but, when we meet, are sharers of our existence. There is no separation; the same thought is given at the same moment to both, --indeed it is born of the meeting, and would not otherwise have been called into existence at all." Margaret Fuller |
| "You slide past everything with your fear and hate of ownership, of owning, of being owned, of being named. You think this is a virture. I think you are inhuman." Michael Ondaatje |
| "I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, so wordless sometimes, as if the greatest betrayel of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character." Michael Ondaatje |
| "The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he demands." Mark Twain |