#inspiration

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

"Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength."

"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."

"I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all."

"To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem."

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

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"88. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris."

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

"We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be."

"The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself."

"Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro."

"Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present."

"Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life."

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

"The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be."

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."

"Love is written by the soul."

"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."