#inspiration

"The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new."

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."

"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."

"Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!"

"Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

"Writing is the thing that props me up."

"Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day."

"Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive."

"With a lump forming in his throat, he thoughtabout all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More thananything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw uplike his dad when it came to love and marriage."

"Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason."

"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

"If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

"Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art?"

"Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK."

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!"

"Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten."