inspiration

"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away."

"Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed."

"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."

"The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley."

"Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant."

"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

"The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life."

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

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

"Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody."

"I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me."

"Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved"

"Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come."

"The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day"

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."

"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."