I Learned That Courage Was Not The Absence Of Fear, But The Triumph Over It. The Brave Man Is Not He

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via goodreadss)

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam (via thequotejournals)

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Beautiful Seagull, free as a cloud. Reminding me of one of the books that have challenged my thinking and the way I looked at life: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Jonathan Seagull's very goal was to achieve perfection in his flight and thereby freedom. Unlike the rest of the gulls who were more concerned about eating, who never done anything in their lives other than moving from shore to food and back again. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight, as long as they can fly to get to their food. But for Jonathan Seagull, it was not eating that mattered but flight, flying beyond the horizons. He believes that there's got to be more to this life than just fighting for fish heads. His parents warned him about his obsession, "learning to fly higher won't bring food to the table" they said. "I don't mind being bones and feathers, I just want to know what I can or cannot do in the air and that's it, I just want to know" he told them. He lived as an outcast but eventually attained his goal - perfection in flight. This was after he knew about love, for there are no more limits to flight when one has achieved love. Little did his parents and friends understand that: The gull that flies the highest sees the farthest

Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice

Charles Bukowski

Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.

The warrior of the light is a believer; because he believes that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. For me, this was a book full of proverbs, words of encouragement and wisdom, filled with so much realization on life. As you go along reading each page, you would realize that you can relate to what the author is sharing to us, that in each one of us there is a warrior of light, hiding beneath our folds of fear and doubts. We are a Warrior of Light, whether we believe in it at first or not, because we are servants of the longingness to find our dreams, to conquer our fears and live life with pure contentment. A Warrior of Light is not perfect, and more than we could imagine, have more flaws than what eyes can perceive;but a Warrior of Light is not afraid to admit his mistakes and go through about his chosen path with the hope that he will soon find his way to his Personal Legend. He believes that no one can fulfill his destiny but he alone; and that without God, he is nothing but a mere dust on the face of the Earth. This book is not only a book of inspirational quotations but a book reflecting our own personal endeavors and feelings; it's a mirror of our ownselves, seeing through it that we are capable.