#inspirational

"I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me."

"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

"When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky."

"hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever"

"Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love."

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

"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"

"Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage."

"Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all."

"It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do."

"Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity."

"May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave."

"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."

"You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas."

"Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love."

"I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids."

"Orang yang baca banyak buku kayak kamu dan menguasai sejarah nggak mungkin bodoh. Kamu cuma sial karena hidup di tempat dan waktu yang salah. Tempat dan waktu ketika kamu dianggap bodoh kalau kamu nggak pintar dalam hal yang namanya sains."