Quotes About Inspiration

I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect

And isn't part of your life doing something with the gifts God has given you?

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

I don't know how to explain it, but even at the tender age of 10, I knew that I had found my heart's home. As my Sunday school teacher taught me about Jesus' love for me, I began to fall in love with Him.

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles. Books showed me that not all fathers understand their daughters or even seek to, but that people can turn out okay despite that. Books made me feel beautiful when I wasn't. Capable when I couldn't be.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles... Books made me feel beautiful when I wasn't. Capable when I couldn't be. Books built my identity.

Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in.

She always wanted those around her to see the greatest possible versions of themselves. That passion made her a fantastic teacher.

I have written all of them' She shows me her work, while I look down in wonder. 'These pages, by the beginning letter of the surname.' She turns to a page with R, which is a letter I know, there at the top, she reads off, 'Amalee August Rain.' I sit down beside her and she gives it over to me, an I turn through all the pages. 'I'll be,' I whisper. 'A book of lost friends.

Every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

keep only pieces. All colors, all shapes, all sizes. "All waiting to be stitched into the pattern only you can see. "In the quiet after the storm, I hear you whisper, 'Daughter, do not linger where you are. Take up your needle and your thread,

Loren Eiseley, who was the subject of one of my favorite term papers, wrote, If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water, but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books. I need magic.

Beyond that, I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

Few things are more life affirming than watching an idea that was fledgling and frail in its infancy, seemingly destined for birth and death in almost the same breath, stretch its lungs and curl its fingers around the threads of life, and hang on with a determination that can't be understood, only felt.

People around me invited me into homes that operated on a schedule and where parents spoke encouraging words. They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand.

If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water, but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

I]f there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

T]here is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

I drink in the sight, stand mesmerized, drenched in leather and paper and gold edges and ink and words. I'm carried away. Lost.