inspiration

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"Books are challenging and inspirational to me."

"My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken."

"No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started."

"Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!"

"Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose."

"I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."

"Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast."

"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

"You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing..."

"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."

"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."

"All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer."

"The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids."

"We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery."

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."