#inspirational

"You are the expression of consciousness; your thoughts are the expression of you."

"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"Forget yourself and go to work."

"I liked things better when I didn't understand them."

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."

"Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time"

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."

"Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace."

"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."

"Love with passion. Love for no reason."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

"Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans"

"Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?"she asks. "No, what?""Blue sky.""You're zoomed.""You ever eat blue sky?""No,"I admit. "Try it sometime,"she says. "It's apple-flavored."

"The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival."

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."