#inspiration

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

"Once you have met someone, you never really forget them."

"Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate"you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite,"because, who cares about polite?"

"The Glory Is Always Hidden Between The Lines Of the Story"

"Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

"To be saved is here, local and mortal"

"Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping."

"The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up."

"We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts."

"Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!"

"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."

"Good men do the most harm."

"Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake."

"Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup."

"Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory."

"All knowledge is worth having."

"Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want."

"People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got."

"What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?"