#inspirational

"Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better."

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

"The best investment for poverty elimination is education."

"Give your weakness to one who helps."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"If I must fall, may it be from a high place."

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong?"

"Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on."

"Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice."

"Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently"

"Someday is now."

"Take Care Of Your Tongue Like The Way You Take Care Of Gold & Silver."

"Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other."

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."

"...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there."

"Treat everyone with the sweetness of love and respect."

"There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A."

"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."