Quotes About Inspiration

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley

Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more . . . though I know that IS the noblest ambition . . . but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me . . . to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so.

I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress – because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worthwhile –

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor ever will pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's 'true to life' or not. It's true to life as it should be and that's a better truth than the other.

Because when you're imagining you might as well imagine something worth while--

You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else.

But she remembered in time that she had an imagination and could use it.

Pero me alegro de que hoy no llueva porque será más fácil estar alegre y vencer los contratiempos con un día de sol. Y presiento que tendré un montón de dificultades que superar. Es muy fácil eso de leer sobre las penas de los demás e imaginarse a uno vencer las dificultades heroicamente, pero no es tan sencillo cuando son realidad, ¿no les parece?

You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know.

you must learn to keep on this side of the borderline between the real and the unreal. Then the power to escape at will into a beautiful world of your own will help you amazingly through the hard places of life.

Los dos sabían que la imaginación era la mejor forma de acceder a un mundo de felicidad y alegría

One of the reviews says the book radiates happiness and optimism. When I think of the conditions of worry and gloom and care under which it was written I wonder at this. Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.

Burada hayal kurabileceÄŸim daha geniÅŸ bir alan var.

Çünkü eÄŸer bir ÅŸey hayal edecekseniz, uÄŸraÅŸt???n?za deÄŸecek bir ÅŸeyler hayal etmelisiniz.

I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed

And always when the flash came to her Emily felt that life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty.

Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?