inspiration

"Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way."

"What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan."

"Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength."

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

"Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked."

"I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…"

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."

"You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better."

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."

"The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't."

"Your tears only water your weeds"

"Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, for that shall give me the real reason never ever to look back and see what I have done but to look ahead and see the marvelous things I shall be able to do and the distinctive footprints I shall be able live and leave with the very seconds that shall be ahead of me! Life must never be over until all is over!"

"0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love."

"I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland."

"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club."

"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

"The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected."

"Don't let your habits become handcuffs"

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."