#inspirational

"The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me."

"You become what you focus on and dream about."

"Hearts are breakable,"Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before"."

"The deep observation of nature can transform your consciousness into a higher consciousness that will awaken your true being."

"one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love."

"Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable."

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

"The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror."

"Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing."

"The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'."

"I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."

"The lovers of the world are the ones who matter. Forget the rest. Jesus was a lover. He doesn't hate anyone."

"Treat life as if it is the best gift from the universe."

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."