SOMETIMES

...you actually find inspiration while doing research for essays. ok, so it's very rare and only likely to happen if you're in theatre and writing about a theatre company for mentally challenged young people. but still. from the pages of Throw Your Heart Over the Fence by Diane Dupuy:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I will now say grace. Please bow your heads. Heavenly Father, this is the beginning of a new day. God has given us this day to use as we will. We can waste it or use it for good. What we do today is important because we are exchanging a day of our lives for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something we have traded for it. We want it to be a gain, not a loss, full of good, not evil, success, not failure, so that we shall not regret the price we paid for it. Amen.
or the price He paid for it. Amen.

here's another:

The trouble with this world is that nobody ever thinks they have a handicap, when in fact we all have handicaps to overcome.

finally,

Great spirits always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

in this time of chaos, stress and turmoil, it's always good to be re-inspired.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.
~Philippians 4:8~