inspiration

"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."

"I don’t want to freeze my eggs. I don’t want to visit a sperm bank. I don’t want to be a single parent, if I have any choice in the matter. I want a nuclear family. I want to put down roots, to let my seeds germinate, to watch them bloom and flourish. Not one day, if and when I ever fall in love again, but now. While I still have my youth, damn it."

"All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything."

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

"Your life is your spiritual path.It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better."

"[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up."

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

"The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses."

"Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds."

"Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none."

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."

"It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."

"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."

"Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

"Love drips like honey from the hive, constant, sweet, precious, into your heart each and every moment if you let it."