Inspiration

Credit and respect to all the poets, artists, and creators on this page.

Favorite Poems

Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Horatius, Thomas Babington Macaulay
I Have a Rendezvous with Death, Alan Seeger
If-, Rudyard Kipling
Invictus, William Ernest Henley
Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman
Melinda Mae, Shel Silverstein

Richard Cory, Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Bells, Edgar Allan Poe
The Builders, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Fool’s Prayer, Edward Rowland Sill
The Guy in the Glass, Peter Dale Wimbrow, Sr.
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
The Spider and The Fly: A Fable, Mary Howitt
The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll

Favorite Poetry Videos

59, Paper People, The Sunshine Kid

How I fell in Love at Freshest Fair

Perfect

Maia Mayor

I Want to Be

Maia Mayor

Elementary

G. Yamazawa

Boy Meets World

Samuel L. Jackson

Favorite Inspirational Videos

Favorite Songs

Wolf Totem

The Hu

Unstoppable

Sia

Believer

Imagine Dragons

Thunder

Imagine Dragons

Immigrant Song

Led Zeppelin

Sabotage

Hallowed Be Thy Name

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

The Offspring

No One Like You

Crazy Train

Ozzy Osbourne

Favorite Quotes

> A man with one watch always knows what time it is.  A man with two watches is never sure. – ASL

> Be Excellent to Each Other and Party on Dudes! – Bill & Ted

> Do your best.  Fuck the rest.  – Cookie

> Don’t Panic.  – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

> Humility built my castle.  Ego can only destroy it. – Cookie

> I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. – Ashleigh Brilliant.

> If you can’t eat popcorn off your own dick, who can? – T. Metters

> If you’re going to complain, complain quietly.  For down the street, a man is dying. – ASL

> In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but through perseverance.

> In this world full of wonderful things, we should all be as happy as kings – SLA

> Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right. – Salvor Hardin, Foundations Edge, Isaac Asimov

> People are funny; they spend money they don’t have to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

> People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realize how seldom they do.

> Silence is the ultimate weapon of power; it is also one of the hardest arguments to dispute.

> The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is…Forty-two.  – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

> The strongest religion you can have is believing in yourself – SLA

> When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. – Max DePree

> Wherever you are, that’s the place to be. – E. Luster, Mike Damone (Fast Times at Ridgemont High – 1982)

> YES and NO are the two most important words that you will ever say.  These are the two words that determine your destiny in life.

> No one give a shit about your product or your service.  I only care about it to the extent that it helps me move away from pain and towards pleasure.

Favorites from the Movies

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