#inspiration

"The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

"The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem."

"In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

"I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out."

"Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective."

"When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."

"All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about."

"Don't ever ask for permission to follow your dreams. Follow them no matter fucking what. It's important. We have one life here and you are the author of your story, more than anybody else. You are much more responsible for your dreams coming true or not than anyone else in your life you have contacted with. So, dream big, work hard, and make it happen no matter what."

"Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday."

"But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better."

"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."

"Every mother has to take care of her family."

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"Love is the absence of judgment."

"If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way."

"If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?"