Quotes About Inspiration

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

In der Nacht waren sie der Gegenstand seiner Träume, und während des Tages trieb ihn der Eifer, seinem Vorbild ähnlich zu werden, hinaus und stachelte ihn zu dem Vorsatz an, die gleichen Taten zu verrichten.

As Plato says: 'People cannot be good leaders, unless they have first been good servants.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days

Painting is silent poetry.

Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don't care. But I think if you're really struggling to find it - and I think you have, I mean, you've gone all over the country to find it - it's almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there's something there. Something in you that's trying to get out. People who don't have passions don't struggle.

From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek—the finding part is up to God.

When your own painful experiences inspire you to the extent that you become truly determined to break free of suffering, that is what the Buddha taught as the attitude of "renunciation.

Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Poul is gone, now, more's the pity — he was a neighbor of mine out here in California, and a friend for more than forty years — but his books live on, and I'm happy to see his lovely High Crusade coming into a new incarnation now. —Robert Silverberg, April 2010

But we must have something beyond survival to live for, or we shall not survive.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)

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Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun ? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari.

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