inspiration

"No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself."

"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"Only one life, ’twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ will last."

"I don't go out with strangers,"I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five."

"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."

"Life's managed, not cured."

"There must be something I am doing that will make sense to somebody some day."

"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

"Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."

"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

"The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions."

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."

"If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride"

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."