Quotes About Inspiration

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Monique Faison Ross shares with us her engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story of brutal intimate violence. Her survival, her strength, and her wisdom are an inspiration and a lesson to us all. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear what the targets of domestic violence are trying to tell us, told in a way that will keep you turning the pages."-- Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That? and The Joyous Recovery

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole earth, shedding light in the dark places which so sadly needed light . His memory calls forth my most sincere homage, love, and esteem. {Burbank on the great Robert Ingersoll , whom he admired so much that he requested Ingersoll 's eulogy for his brother, Ebon Ingersoll, to be read at his own funeral}

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names– though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' Not just responsibility for our individual futures but also for that of the world.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

But at the time I had that strange confidence, born of watching a good movie, that I could be something different from what I was...

That night I couldn't sleep at all. Mozart had shown me immortal light, and I now felt as though I were under direct orders from Mozart. He expressed his sadness not only with the minor scale but with the major scale as well.

Color these fish. Cut them out. Punch a hole in the top of each fish. Put a ribbon through all the holes. Tie these fish together. Now read what is written on these fish: Jesus is a friend. Jesus gathers friends. I am a friend of Jesus.

If you want to be original, don't labor to be original. Rather, work on yourself, your mind, and then say what you think. This was Stendhal's advice. Actually, he said: "If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Ce que j'aimais sans mesure chez ces sept femmes (lesquelles ayant pris le risque de vivre sans prudence ne purent éviter celui d'en souffrir) c'était leur puissance poétique, c'était la grâce de leur écriture, c'était le retournement qu'elles opéraient sur les forces de mort et leur pouvoir de conjuguer l'oeuvre avec l'existence, c'était le bouleversement qu'elles provoquaient en moi et le surcroît de vie qu'elles ne cessaient depuis longtemps de m'insuffler.

Acaso un artista puede amar tanto su trabajo que, si piensa que su obra no tiene vida, tampoco él quiere tenerla ya?