#inspiration

"Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him."

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

"I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!"

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"

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

"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."

"You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better."

"People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments."

"If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives."

"When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change."

"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."

"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"

"God is as real as a station wagon."

"0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

"Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down."

"You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself."

"There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others"