#inspiration

"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."

"If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them."

"I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…"

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"Buddha had said:"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

"Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world."

"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."

"Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind."

"An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud."

"We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas."

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it."

"That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value."

"Sometimes questions are more important than answers."

"I will try it until i get it right. I will try it until i am no longer trying but doing it."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey."