inspiration

"Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon."

"The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you."

"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

"I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness."

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"

"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."

"Behind your greatest fears lie your greatest rewards."

"If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!"

"I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return"

"Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both."

"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

"Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!"

"Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do."

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"

"Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning--and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."