inspiration

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God."

"Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story."

"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought."

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."

"Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!"

"take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead."

"Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel."

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]"

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

"I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries."

"Dicen que con llorar nada se arregla pero eso no es verdad. Llorar es hacer algo aunque ese algo no sirva más que para quitarnos la sensacion insoportable de no hacer nada."