#inspiration

"About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince."

"Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG"

"But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it."

"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"Good men do the most harm."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism."

"Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance."

"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."

"Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself."

"There are no tyrants if there are no slaves."

"I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life."

"But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight."

"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."

"Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach."

"Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level."

"Never run from the enemy, tackle them"

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

"Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'."