inspiration

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

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

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a"

"Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world."

"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."

"Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be."

"A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses"

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

"My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature."

"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see."

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow."

"YOU are your love of a lifetime."

"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."

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

"Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST."

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."