inspiration

"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

"Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25"

"You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway."

"What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything."

"God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man."

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

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."

"When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is."

"All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016"

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."

"You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football."

"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."

"[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish."

"Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)"

"Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps."

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."

"the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become apresent love."

"When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it."