#inspirational

"When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness."

"We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has."

"You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die."

"When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable)."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."

"No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent."

"[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived."

"I always feel that everyone loves me so I never forget to love everyone else."

"Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate."

"hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever"

"Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses."

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

"Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."

"Remember that life is a miracle; enjoy it at its best."

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."

"All great achievements require time."

"There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it."