Quotes About Inspiration

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.

The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart

We pray for what is "to come," not for what already exists. The "event" does not require "belief" in a static, unchanging deity who "exists" but inspires us to make what is "astir" in the name "God"— absolute beauty, peace, justice, and selfless love—a reality in the world.

As Solomon ben Jehiel (1510–74), known as Maharshal, explained, scripture was the Word of God, so that even if the heavens and the oceans were ink, they would not suffice to expound a single passage of scripture, record all the doubts arising from it, and the many new ideas that it inspired.

Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.

Gud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.

When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.

This strength, and love of life in them, to me seemed not only highly respectable, but glorious and bewitching.

God's Word is both powerful and practical.

All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring.

to say that dust bunnies were the spirit animals of creatives.

Coffee is the elixir of life.

Excellent. I feel better already. My lady, you have had a very positive influence over Lord Westerville. He has left the morbid world of Only Black behind and now embraces other colors of the spectrum.

You've got what it takes, Billie Jo. Look at the size of those hands, he'd say. Look at how tall.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

Nina Torrone, a young artist whose work had caught fire and was selling for over half a million per painting.

Karen MacInerney

There is meaning in the dark corners of human life and in that meaning lies hope