Inspired by Ten Voices

Inspiration comes in different forms. Sometimes, it comes from movies or a really good song. Sometimes, it comes from a person. Maybe it's someone you just met, maybe it's someone you've known for a long time. Sometimes, it comes as an epiphany, a complete and total shock to your system.

In any way, inspiration comes to help you grow as an individual. It cannot be simply described. 

So, I will begin the week with some thoughts that inspire excellence.

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” 

― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts

“If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.” 

― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” 

― Maya Angelou

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” 

― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” 

― Socrates

"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."

― Empire Records

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” 

― Eleanor Roosevelt

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” 

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” 

― Vincent van Gogh

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

― Gahndi

With that, I leave you until tomorrow.

Stay Inspired,

Alaska