"I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to."

“You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by”

“My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.”

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

“You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.”

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”

“It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.”

“Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another.”

“Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.”

Source : Douglas Bloch (2015). “A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom”, p.90, BookBaby