Quotes About Inspiration

Joyce Carol Oates

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Thank god for beauty, a balm to the soul.

I still remember typing the title page on my manual Smith-Corona with clammy hands and a racing heart. When I came to the words, A novel by Joyce Elbert, I heard the New York Philharmonic break into Wagnerian praise for a major new literary voice, yet seconds later doubt and insecurity had crept in.

I had never been productive in beautiful, serene settings. I needed noise, activity, some kind of external energy to get me going.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." —Saint Francis of Assisi

God has picked you out to pick you up.

Whatever your call may be, do it the best you know how, believing that you have heard from God. 12.

As a man thinketh in his heart; so is he. Therefore, all of my thoughts are positive. I do not allow the devil to use my spirit as a garbage dump by meditating on negative things that he offers me. (Prov. 23:7 KJV)

It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

In order to seize the day, make goals and go after them with all your heart.

Common people with uncommon goals who make an uncommon commitment can help an uncommon number of people who can also lead other common people to do uncommon things. Develop your potential to the full. And as you do, lead others in developing theirs. Be all you can be. Then help someone else be all they can be.

God Wants You to Be Encouraged

As you wander on through life, brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the donut and not upon the hole.

The more positive you and I become, the more we will be in the flow of God. God is certainly positive, and to flow with Him, we must also be positive.

When you live in the garden of hope, something is always blooming!

The truth of God's word sets you free.

Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Do not ever forget, for even a day… how very special you are!