inspiration

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step."

"When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?"

"Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people."

"Think with your whole body."

"Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts."

"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world."

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!"

"You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own."

"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

"Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful."

"You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this."

"Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others."

"There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all."

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

"We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary."

"You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower."

"There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?"