inspiration

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."

"For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles."

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy."

"Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!"

"Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark."

"It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth."

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

"Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living."

"Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright"

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired."

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

"Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time"deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time"because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision."

"Well done is better than well said."

"Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you."

"Dining with the King; your attire, attitude and mentality must change."

"All thinking men are atheists."