inspiration

"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."

"Never judge a work of art by its defects"

"Exuberance is beauty."

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

"When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"Live your life, no matter what that life is."

"Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."

"There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it."

"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."

"Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed."

"Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can."

"Try - now's gift."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end."-Bobby Pendragon"

"I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true."

"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."

"It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships."

"Make today worth remembering."

"Why choose to fail when success is an option?"