inspiration

"Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better."

"It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"No life is a waste,"the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone."

"No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

"If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing."

"Just be yourself, there is no one better."

"If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved."

"Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest."

"Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)"

"[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you."

"I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life."

"Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it."

"A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish"

"To shine always love always."

"Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it."