Inspirational Quotes
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.
Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
Act like a champion, and then become one.
It is action that creates motivation.
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
See it first in your mind, then become it.
Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.
When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.