#inspirational

"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."

"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."

"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."

"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."

"With the wind of love, let your heart dance like a flower."

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could"

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith"

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do."

"The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all."

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up"

"If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two."

"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."