inspiration

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."

"I make music for ears, not eyes"

"The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

"A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind."

"I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

"If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs."

"Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!"

"If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)"

"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."

"In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard."

"Smile at strangers and you just might change a life."

"Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe."

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

"Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries."

"Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith."

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"