inspiration

"Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently."

"Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

"Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain."

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do."

"My dear Watson,"said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

"An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it."

"Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness."

"Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected."

"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."

"Don't think or judge, just listen."

"Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?"

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

"And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about."

"there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now"