inspiration

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

"At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women"

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

"I'd like to add some beauty to life,"said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."

"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."

"Anything under God's control is never out of control."

"The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish."

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"

"Trust your inner voice."

"I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!"

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it."