#inspirational

"A flower is a gift of love from the universe given to you. So cherish it, enjoy it with a full blissful heart."

"Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone."

"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced."

"Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be."

"Like the sun, start each day with a smile."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

"Guilt starts as a feeling of failure."

"Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big"

"Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression."

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."

"I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human."

"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."

"You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift."

"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

"I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true."

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

"At the end of our lives, nothing remains except memories."

"First I dream my life. Then I live in that dream with love and joy."