inspiration

"Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul."

"Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him."

"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?"

"There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart."

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."

"You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking."

"The question is not how to get cured, but how to live."

"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do."

"Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior."

"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"Dance through life flinging kindness like shimmering rainbows. Find your bliss by sharing your heart."

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

"Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it."

"Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast."

"Why give up?Why give in?"

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."

"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

"People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"