#inspirational

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

"When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light."

"Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."

"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."

"No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone."

"What hurts us is what heals us"

"There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff."

"When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform."

"When you're strong and good, then you're Bad."

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good."

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

"The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think."

"Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this"

"The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed."

"Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground."

"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care."

"Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!"