Quotes About Inspiration

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Literature is my Utopia

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

What is it like?

Christian could not help smiling,

Sojourner [Truth]'s voice was the instrument that enabled her to claim her full self. Once she had done this, she was able to use her instrument and life story to help gain freedom for others.

For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them.

I was looking down at a little sprig of mahonia growing out of the turf, its oxblood leaves like buffed pigskin.

without Dolly Parton there would have been no Taylor Swift.

Enthusiasm... - something close to passion at times... (is) the stuff brilliance (is) made of....

I like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of a line. Those sounds are encouraging, sounds made by someone who is interested in you and in what you're saying, someone who understands exactly what you're getting at. "Hmm," the typewriter says. And "Mmmm. I-see-I-see-I-see." And sometimes it chuckles....

I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.

For my Mr. Fox (whoever you are)

You told me about how stories come to our aid in times of need.

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

In winter-time visions of Spring and Summer are conjured at will by poets...

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.