#inspirational

"The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine."

"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

"Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead."

"Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will."

"See it, feel it, trust it!"

"You are the seer, you are the scenery, and you are the poetry."

"Stop giving your life away to other people."

"If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!"

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

"Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

"A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be."

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."

"It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other."

"The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss."

"Choose to long for love, to live in love, and to be the love so that you can achieve higher consciousness."

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."