sxsw’s most recent Quotables

What matters most is how much joy you’re currently experiencing in the present moment. If you’re putting off your happiness until you accomplish something, you’re failing at life.

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

If you are incapable of apologizing when you're wrong, then you are not humble. There is no authenticity without humility.

Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember: those are the ones that lead to the most beautiful views."

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt; sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.

People gravitate toward things that feel like they're being done by people who love it.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.

We come to love, not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Life must be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not [a] goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.