Inspirational Scriptures

Inspiration secures the perfect infallibility of the Scriptures in every part, as a record of fact and doctrine both in thought and verbal expression; so that, although they come to us through the instrumentality of the minds, hearts, imaginations, consciences, and wills of men, they are nevertheless in the strictest sense the Word of God.
A.A. Hodge

Celebrity Love Letter

I cannot better explain to you what I felt than by saying that your unknown heart seemed to pass into my bosom--there to dwell forever--while mine, I thought, was translated into your own. From that hour, I loved you. Yes, I now feel that was then--on the evening of sweet dreams--that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy Night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety...for years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you. The merest whisper that concerned you awoke in me a shuttering sixth sense, vaguely compounded of fear, ecstatic happiness, and in a wild, inexplicable sentiment that resembled nothing so nearly as the consciousness of guilt.

Edgar Allen Poe's romantic letter to poet Sarah Helen Whitman

Dreams and Love

It’s an old axiom that people are led by their fears and by their dreams. To the extent that people are driven by their fears, it undermines achieving their dreams. Dreams cannot be achieved through fear. You can never get love through fear. Bob Hoffman said that in negative love you always get the opposite of what you want. The reconciliation of one’s true nature with one’s life purpose is another goal of the Process.

Raz Ingrasci

Motivational Success Advice

Here is the truth. Being a success is doing your best, not being the best.
Chris Widener, Made for Success

Brad Pitt on Marriage

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

Brad Pitt, Hollywood actor

Inspirational Imagination Tip

The power of imagination need not be reserved for the children and the eccentric among us. We all have the power to use our fantasies to attempt things we never thought possible, to endure things that seem unendurable, and to go places we never believed we could. Motivational speakers call it "imagery". Psychologists call it "self-actualization". I prefer Walt Disney's interpretation: "If you can dream it, you can do it."
Sue Dickinson

Leadership of Jesus

Jesus called for servant leadership, which is not about having the inmates run the prison or pleasing everybody, but is about setting up a very clear vision and direction, with a mission statement, a set of values, and a picture of the future. Once the vision is set, the leader moves to the bottom of the hierarchy and becomes the cheerleader, supporter, encourager of people living according to the vision.
Ken Blanchard, Business speaker, author of One Minute Manager