inspiration

"There's more to life than love."

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

"Help"is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom."

"How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others"

"Go past the insecurity. Go past the little voice that says doing that thing will hurt you. Instead let the pain flow through you, and just hold on. At that very point, you will find yourself invincible."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"Your dreams are worth it. Persevere. Your focus is your power. Harness it."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

"These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart."

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

"Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss."

"Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present."

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."

"If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend."