Esalen Quotes

#1. We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Jeff Ament

#2. My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

Jill Soloway

#3. Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

Bill Crawford

#4. No photograph can truly recall the beloved's smile.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Well, to be precise - and I know how important the facts are to you, Christophe - it's your mother's automobile. And I believe a woman should drive a woman's automobile.

Kristin Hannah

#6. I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

Bette Davis

#7. What would they see, anyone who had chosen to watch?

Hugh Howey

#8. How cruel that mankind was forced to conform to the global electronic experience. But all other options had vanished. There no longer existed a country to escape to ("country" - also, what a quaint notion) where people read books and had lives that became stories.

Douglas Coupland

#9. I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

Lynda Resnick

#10. lounging around the pull

C.K. Murray

#11. If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.

Serena Williams

#12. There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them.

Glen E. Morrell

#13. In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

Luis Barragan

#14. I have brushed my teeth.
This day and I are even.

Vera Pavlova

#15. The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#16. I believe in love - yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love.

Selena Gomez