inspiration

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"When we are open, strong and fluid in our body, we are experiencing the best that life has to offer with very little limitation or constraints."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."

"I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world."

"If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made"

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

"...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run."

"I believe in miracles.... I have to."

"Help"is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom."

"Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan."

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."

"In the end, everything is a gag."

"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"

"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more."She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."