Inspired.Us

Secrets are such tantalizing things. They are like magnets. The moment you learn about the existence of one, you feel the overpowering need ...

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers." Let's be ...

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you’ve eaten ...

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Here’s a funny question: What is your favorite word? Think about it—maybe it’s a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that so...

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If histor...

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to buil...

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and...

Here’s a strange fact. Writers, for the most part—especially writers of fiction—are doomed to be ever on the fringes of recognition, unknown...

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to...

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Okay, why is it that women are supposed to love shoes and purses and shiny expensive trinkets? Seriously. Do you , if you’re a woman? I mean...

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, a...