inspiration

"I like to set my dreams high. That way, even if I only make it half way there, it's still pretty darned good."

"Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength."

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."

"I believe in miracles.... I have to."

"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

"I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good."

"We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time."

"People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin."

"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"

"Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds."

"إن كان في حياتك تمّة شئٌ يستحقُ التأجيل ... فليكن التأجيلُ نفسُه"

"Turn down mediocrity in all its forms!"

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."

"Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark."

"Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill."

"You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it"

"She has a sly smile, and eyes that seem to see my essence as they explore my soul and implore my spirit to enter her. I look at her and I see love."

"Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most."