inspiration

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

"Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better."

"When you say "I"and "my"too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we"and "our"."

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."

"I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll beold. And then you’ll be dead."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with."

"There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff."

"Life is about becoming more of who you really are...."

"Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it"

"I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again."

"May you live every day of your life."

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

"I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day."

"People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!"

"Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them."

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."