#inspirational

"Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken..."

"Please don't die."

"Books fall open, you fall in."

"You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful."

"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes."

"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."

"I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you."

"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all."

"Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time"

"Education gives light, life and liberty."

"Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it."

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."

"It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."

"An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."