#inspirational

"You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!"

"You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you."

"Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity."

"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success."

"You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself."

"You can choose to say, "Good Morning God"or "Good God, morning!"

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."

"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."

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

"When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul."

"When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlock the possibilities within!"

"Nobody steals books but your friends."

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down"

"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure—not from success."

"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort."

"Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways."

"She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing"I walked in a gray world of nothing."