inspiration

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"When wealth flees, untrue friends follow."

"By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is."

"Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this"

"She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good..."

"Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid."

"You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done."

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."

"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness; but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always."

"The difference between you and everyone else, is everyone else. And that’s a lot, so you should feel special."

"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."

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

"What is more yours than what always holds you back?"

"Action creates/a taste/for itself."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"I have always believed in the power of collaboration. Early on in my professional career, I realized that you can't develop all the competencies you need fast enough on your own. Furthermore, if you don't collaborate, your ideas will be limited to your own abilities. As a result, you will not be able to serve your clientele and thus can't achieve the anticipated impact."

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."

"Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation"