#inspiration

"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"

"If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words."

"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse."

"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

"We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven."

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup."

"‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

"True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return..."

"No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future."

"Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends."

"...(W)here there's drama, there's crap."

"In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain."

"That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door."

"Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness."

"I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me."

"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]"