Quotes About Inspiration

Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Soon the floor in front of us is littered with the corpses of unfinished songs.

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Because, Leonard said, light overcomes darkness. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe you can be defeated.

I see colors like you hear jet planes.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

We want everyone to follow their dreams, their hearts (aren't they bursting, like ours?); we want them doing things that we will find interesting.

You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that's going to happen is if you actually do it. People can't read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit.

Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?

Oscar Wilde wrote, Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascination... [they] live the poetry [they] cannot write.

The sun was still low, and everything was golden, and I thought I was seeing my destiny.

That's what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever read, everything you have ever learned from holding a book in your hands and how that knowledge shaped you and made you who you are today. Looking back now on all those years, to when I first discovered books at the library, I see that I was simply falling in love. Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

In terms of your own zinging, we'd expect about ten or so a day, but that's sort of a minimum. I'm sure you'll have more to say than that.

We had traveled 4200 miles or whatever and thus were obligated to create something. We had to take the available materials and make something worthy.

Through the smal tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

Sometimes," Oisín said, "people simply do things. They get an idea and do it, and it's not tied up with any love or childhood trauma. If we believe there's a dramatic origin story for every human endeavor, we deprive our species of the ability to simply conjure an idea. To just make stuff and do things.

lived through an extraordinary experience, yet I was fortunate enough to learn from it and walk away a better person. I can't change my past, and it does not grant me the right to use it as a crutch, nor am I destined to become a prisoner because of it. For years I have lived by the philosophy: that which does not kill you can only make you stronger. I simply had to learn to pick myself up at an earlier age.

Whatever you do, do something positive.