inspiration

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

"Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you."

"Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived."

"Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping."

"Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing."

"The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands."

"Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!"and calmly walk away. I was inspired."

"It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with."

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

"Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good."

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

"Your past must die for your future to live."

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

"إننا نربط أنفسنا - حين نصلي - بالقوة العظمى التي تهيمن على الكون، ونسألها ضارعين أن تمنحنا قبساً منها نستعين به على معاناة الحياة، بل إن الضراعة وحدها كفيلة بأن تزيد قوتنا ونشاطنا، ولن تجد احداً ضرع إلى الله مرة إلا عادت عليه هذه الضراعة بأحسن النتائج."

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"