inspiration

"Think with your whole body."

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."

"With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street."

"It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"The importance of knowing for certain that you have been saved cannot be understated. We do not know how many days, hours, or minutes God has granted us here to have an opportunity to make a choice."

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

"What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."

"My dream, is to dream, a dream."

"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."

"My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!"

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

"Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author."

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

"The authentic self is the soul made visible."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me."

"You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own."

"I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one."

"The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th."