#inspiration

"We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths..."

"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."

"If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride"

"Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world."

"But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on."

"I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!"

"I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return."

"Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside."

"It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that."

"Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment."

"Patience is the direct antithesis of anger."

"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."

"Like madness is the glory of this life."

"You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth."

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

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?"

"Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?"

"Other people are only aspects of our own greater being."

"Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation."