#inspirational

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?"

"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book."

"Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it."

"...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him."

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

"In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard."

"A single moment of life has more miracles and worth than to live a whole life."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."

"If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"

"It is easy to hold on, but it is difficult to let it go."

"Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?"

"To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem."

"Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking."

"Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it."