Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.
Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
(a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two...
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that'll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hear...
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of batt...
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.