inspiration

"I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me."

"(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write."

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?"

"When your will is God's will, you will have your will."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight."

"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors."

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

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."

"There is freedom waiting for you,On the breezes of the sky,And you ask "What if I fall?"Oh but my darling,What if you fly?"

"Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!"

"Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."