inspiration

"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today."

"Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds."

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

"Ideas come from everything"

"...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run."

"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."

"To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water."

"for me, to say that I am yet to begin gives me the real reason not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do"

"There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you)."

"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."

"The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all."

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"

"Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground."

"I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."