There is no right or left there is only up and down.
Bob Dylan

In the 21st century, if you are not making art with the intention of it being copied, you are not making contemporary art.
- Cory Doctorow

freeparking

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
- Vincent van Gogh

Santhosh Janardhanan

Let the world change you… and you can change the world
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie)

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Wake Up Tiger

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

Buddha

Saint Augustine declared that “the world is a book, and those who have not traveled have read only one page.” Only firsthand experience can validate or challenge our intuitions, giving us confidence about risky political decisions in a complex world of instant feedback loops and unintended consequences. During travel, perception and thought merge; a contradiction can emerge as a truth to be revealed, not some exception to be disproved. Such ambiguity is the corollary of complexity, after all. Reality is famously resistant to theories that measure the world according to what it should be rather than how it really is. Instead, exploring the patterns of the second world aesthetically, honoring the value of purely sensory judgments — this exposes characteristics that are common to the entire second world; differences are revealed to be more relative than absolute.

Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008)

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Will Smith

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Peck

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Edit: While this still remains one of my favorite quotes, it turns our that the attribution of the quote cannot be verified to be Mark Twain. Whoever it may of been, it’s still a beautiful quote.