inspiration

"A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him."

"To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you."

"We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative."

"Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes."

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!"

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

"We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way."

"the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become apresent love."

"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied"

"Bukan mudah untuk berubah... dari tanpa arah ke sejadah, dari tepi jalanan ke sujud menghadap Tuhan."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go."