#inspiring

"What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace"

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

"In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!""And what if you do get a second chance?""You take it!"

"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."

"...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them."

"In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us."

"Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live."

"I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze."

"The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses"

"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality."

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"

"‎"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?""No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave."

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

"The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?"I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do."

"I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work."

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."