inspiration

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

"Don't ever ask for permission to follow your dreams. Follow them no matter fucking what. It's important. We have one life here and you are the author of your story, more than anybody else. You are much more responsible for your dreams coming true or not than anyone else in your life you have contacted with. So, dream big, work hard, and make it happen no matter what."

"Kind words change the world."

"What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely."

"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."

"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."

"So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case."

"If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam."

"We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that."

"The question is not how to get cured, but how to live."

"Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."

"What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future."

"Pray for "all men."We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity."

"In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."