inspiration

"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."

"I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it."

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."

"It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!"

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind."

"Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap."

"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it"

"I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.''If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said."

"Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living"

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

"I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory."

"There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments."