#inspirational

"Live your life, no matter what that life is."

"I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever."

"The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise."

"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."

"Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss."

"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."

"Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most."

"Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man."

"Patience ensures victory."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."

"If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started."

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

"Be the designer of your own future."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!"

"In life, love is not everything, but without love, life is nothing."

"You may fall many times, but you must keep going."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]"