inspiration

"I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

"An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery."

"There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation."

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

"I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.''If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said."

"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory"

"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"

"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."

"If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in."

"a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship"

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult."

"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."

"There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it."

"People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!"

"Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed."