inspiration

"We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?"

"We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility"(20) - Denzel Washington, "So that We Might Follow"

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

"Fear cuts deeper than swords."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book."

"Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!"

"When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it."

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."

"There must be something I am doing that will make sense to somebody some day."

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"Real freedom lies in wildness,not in civilization!!"

"But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on."

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."

"Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."

"Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do."

"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."