Quotes About Inspiration

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

novelists only Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jorge Luis Borges have

many people would never have fallen in love if they had not heard about it.

series of infatuations for admired writers.

It was Virgil's country and there was a wind that seemed to rise from the fields and descend upon us in a long Virgilian sigh, for the land that has inspired sentiment in the poet ultimately receives its sentiment from him.

A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places

Dondequiera que estén las huellas del Maestro, allí, los oídos del que está pronto para recibir sus enseñanzas se abren de par en par». Y además: «Cuando el oído es capaz de oír, entonces vienen los labios que han de llenarlos con sabiduría».

It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest.

Thubten Chodron

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war." [Funeral Oration of Pericles]

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Who, then, is Serlingpa?14 All biographies of Ati?a state that whenever he would utter Serlingpa's name, tears would fall down his cheeks. They report that Ati?a exclaimed that whatever degree of good heart he possessed was due entirely to Serlingpa.

Such veneration, however, is not accorded to the person himself because of his own greatness, but rather is accorded to the teaching that the teacher embodies and exemplifies.

The prince saw the teacher and felt immeasurable joy, A joy that was most extraordinary.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

The world was too loud for little-boy Shane. What he didn't know was that he was training himself to be a deeply empathetic writer—understanding nuanced emotion, spying humanity in unexpected places, seeing past the obvious. He was taking notes for his future self, who would write it all down.

Teen girls rearrange the fucking world.

If you have the opportunity to make a moment meaningful, why not take it?

Books were her kids.