Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Chaos is a friend of mine.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.