#inspirational

"I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?"

"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."

"There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess."

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."

"Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies."

"There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit."

"Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..."

"If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve"

"you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!"

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

"It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

"Start your day with appreciation and gratitude."

"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"

"To enjoy the beauty of love, be a big person in this small world."

"To grow unique beauty, be wild and live in the wilderness of your mind."

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

"I change the world, the world changes me."

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention."

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."