Quotes on “inspiration”

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.