Quotes About Inspiration

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

This is what I discovered in all those museums in Europe when you really connect with a work of art, it doesn't matter that a million people have already stood where you're standing. The instant it means something to you, it's yours.

This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.

Create something new by thinking something new, with the faith that your thought will bring about positive change. Remember, all thought is a form of prayer.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Reading became my sanctuary," Belle continued. "I found so much in those books. I found histories that inspired me. Poems that delighted me. Novels that challenged me…" Belle paused, suddenly self-conscious. She looked down at her hands, and in a wistful voice, said, "What I really found, though, was myself.

Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Go now, girl. Remake the world.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

That's what we do with our pain," she said, watching the butterfly rise. "We make it into something beautiful." "We make it into something meaningful," said the diva. "We make it matter," whispered the actress.

Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.

Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It's all right to lose yourself in one

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

One is not born knowing how to lead, one learns.

Elizabeth walked through the path they'd cleared and up to the towering book. She kicked the cover with a well-shod foot. It slammed shut. Then she dipped her brush into the bucket, crossed out the word history, dipped the brush again, and wrote HER STORY in its place.

The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.

I lift my face to the night sky. It's still dark. But I can see the stars.