inspiration

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"Afinal de contas há coisas que, por mais que se tente usar uma voz agradável e umas palavras dóceis, são inalteráveis. A verdade é o que é! E há verdades que não podem ser adoçadas."

"Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it."

"Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends"

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want."

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"

"I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."

"A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber."

"If you write it down, you can make it happen."

"Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives."

"Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best."

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."

"You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three."

"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."

"Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows."