inspiration

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."

"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."

"Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is."

"You're never going to walk around fear. You're only going to walk through it. I have to do all those things I am afraid of, but I do them constantly renewing my mind."

"If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?"

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."

"The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful."

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see."

"Happiness is a choice. Peace is a state of mind. Both are free!"

"Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

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

"Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it."

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"

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

"Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,& Sharing the success with all!"

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

"Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others."

"There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it."