Quotes About Inspiration

God may speak to us by giving us peace deep inside, giving us a creative idea, calming our troubled emotions, or filling our hearts with the calm assurance that everything is going to be okay in a certain situation.

mind-binding spirits

Anytime I start finding it difficult to stay positive about what I am doing, it helps me tremendously to remember that I am serving Christ. Whatever

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis

Jamás escoja hacer lo malo solo porque los demás lo hagan! ¡Sea un ejemplo a seguir en lugar de alguien que incluso usted mismo se avergüence de conocer!

He quickly asked God to cleanse his lips, and only after that was done did God release him to go and prophesy His message to others

The Word of God is powerful. It has the ability to calm you down, cheer you up, give you hope, and stir your faith up!

When you choose God's will, the Holy Spirit will energize you to live out that decision.

Don't let being ordinary stop or hinder you from trying to do something great.

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that's who forms our poetics.

what are you going to do with all this life

When the poem throttles your innards, that's when you got to hit the paper and arpeggio the keys—it's up to you.-Juan Felipe Herrera @cilantroman

Miraba caer las gotas iluminadas por los relámpagos, ya cada que respiraba suspiraba, y cada vez que pensaba, pensaba en ti

No sé lo que está pasando dentro de mí; pero a cada momento siento que hay algo grande y noble por lo que se puede luchar y vivir. Ese algo grande, para mí, lo eres tú. Esto lo he sabido desde hace mucho, mas ahora que estoy lejos lo he ratificado y comprendido.

En lo más íntimo, Pedro Páramo nació de una imagen y fue la búsqueda de un ideal que llamé Susana San Juan. Susana San Juan no existió nunca: fue pensada a partir de una muchachita a la que conocí brevemente cuando yo tenía tres años. Ella nunca lo supo y no hemos vuelto a encontramos en lo que llevo de vida.

Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.

Alistair opened his eyes. My dear, I haven't exerted myself in years. Then it's way past time to start, old man. - Reagan

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

you must remain limited by your experience, unless you turn to fiction, in which you can, of course, embrace people, places, and events you have never personally known.

One of your first tasks, then, is to ask yourself: why do I care about this? The answer will make you feel entitled to tell your own story—to accept that it is not only worthy of being written down but fit material for literature—something you want to revise and craft until it is beautiful.

Poetry is not business as usual.

If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was