inspiration

"When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose."

"Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival."

"True intimacy with God always brings humility."

"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you."

"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."

"Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art?"

"Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species."

"Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do."

"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"

"When reading, we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

"Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

"You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals."

"The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

"Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!"

"But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."