Words worth keeping

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.

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 have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.