#inspiration

"Humility is not weakness but a price for greatness. Be humble for CHRIST sake and watch GOD take you to places you never dreamt."

"God is as real as a station wagon."

"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real."

"I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him."

"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"

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

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"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."

"Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this"to "I must do this."

"It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep."

"Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense."

"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."

"There is hero in everyone.Never doubt who you are."

"Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive."

"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it."

"Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving."

"We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries."

"And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball."