“What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.”
~Susan Janet Ballion “Siouxsie Sioux”; british singer-songwriter and producer.
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
~ Ray ‘Douglas’ Bradbury, american author.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is one of the greatest accomplishments we can achieve.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson; american author and essayist.
“It would be extremely interesting to write the history of laughter.”
~ Alexander Herzen; russian writer and intellectual.
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
~John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; british author and philologist.
“…I don’t think anybody should make games to try to motivate somebody to do something they don’t want to do. If the game is not about a goal you’re intrinsically motivated by, it won’t work.”
~Jane McGonigal; american game designer and author.
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
~Alfred Adler; austrian physician and psychotherapist.
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
~Martin Heidigger; german philosopher and author.
“The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong.”
~Ernst Bloch; german philosopher.
“The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.”
~Sarah Paulson; american actress.