"Coffee is a lot more than just a drink. It’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself.” Gertrude Stein

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." Maya Angelou

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Marilyn Monroe

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” William Shakespeare

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." Albert Einstein

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts

“We need a more encompassing, integrated and restorative sustainability path that includes people as much as technology and nature.” - Michiel Schwarz

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”

— Leonard Cohen

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic.”

Van Morrison

“Simply with a change of mind you can change your life.”

Deepak Chopra

“Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Charles Bukowski

“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“I realised that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that had already happened. And the shift was, ‘Wait a second. If I can put Jim Carrey aside for four months, who is Jim Carrey? Who the hell is that?’ ... I know now he does not really exist. He’s ideas. ... Jim Carrey was an idea my parents gave me. Irish-Scottish-French was an idea I was given. Canadian was an idea that I was given. I had a hockey team and a religion and all of these things that cobble together into this kind of Frankenstein monster, this representation. It’s like an avatar. These are all the things I am. You are not an actor, or a lawyer. No one is a lawyer. There are lawyers, law is practiced, but no one is a lawyer. There is no one, in fact, there.”

Jim Carrey