inspiration

"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back"(23)."

"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

"There is a way to be good again..."

"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."

"People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin."

"you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

"Life is INCONCLUSIVE but its about an everlasting FUTURE"

"that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."

"Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you've had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly."

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."

"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."

"There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."