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Quotes About Inspiration

If you push enough people to achieve their dreams, they will pull you to your dreams. You reap what you saw, it's a principle of life.
~ Unknown
Life is better when you are happy but life is at its best when people are happy because of you. Be inspired, give love and share your smile with everyone.
~ Unknown
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams go, life is a barren field covered with snow. Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
~ Unknown
Some of us need to learn to be heroes to ourselves before we can be that for others.
~ Unknown
There is nothing I can teach you. You know all that Heracles knew, and more. You are the greatest warrior of your generation, and all the generations before.
~ Madeline Miller
Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
I had not thought him so bold. But of course he was. Artist, creator, inventor, the greatest the world had known.
~ Madeline Miller
I'd like to be a hero, though.
~ Madeline Miller
But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips.
~ Madeline Miller
It was one of my favorite things about him, how he admired the world like a jewel, turning its facets to catch the light. A
~ Madeline Miller
I would like you to teach me." Chiron's stern face softened. "That is why you have been sent here. So that I may teach you what I know.
~ Madeline Miller
I suppose that is true. You said that he shaped kingdoms, but he also shaped the thoughts of men. Before him, all the heroes were Heracles and Jason. Now children will play at voyaging, conquering hostile lands with wits and words.
~ Madeline Miller
Aquiles pulsó otra vez las cuerdas y de ellas brotó otra vez la música. En esta ocasión también cantó, pergeñando un acompañamiento con su clara y rica voz de tiple. Echó la cabeza ligeramente hacia atrás, dejando expuesta la fina piel del cuello, suave como la de un cervato. Una leve sonrisa le aupaba la comisura izquierda de la boca. Me incliné hacia delante casi sin pretenderlo.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy. You can't.' He was sitting up now, leaning forward. He lifted an eyebrow. 'I'll tell you a secret. I'm going to be the first.' He took my palm and held it to his. 'Swear it.' 'Why me?' 'Because you're the reason. Swear it.' 'I swear it, I said, lost in the high colour of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. 'I swear it,' he echoed. We sat like that for a moment, hands touching. He grinned, 'I feel like I could eat the world raw.
~ Madeline Miller
He touched his fingers to the strings. The notes leapt out into the air, bright and silver-sweet. He gathered them into a melody as effortlessly as if he were a god of music himself, so that the whole room seemed to live inside the sound.
~ Madeline Miller
Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him.
~ Madeline Miller
But you were the one who really taught him healing," Achilles said. "I was." "You do not mind that the snake gets all the credit?" Chiron's teeth showed through his dark beard. A smile. "No, Achilles, I do not mind.
~ Madeline Miller
Ich hatte ihn nicht für so mutig gehalten. Aber natürlich war er das. Künstler, Schöpfer, Erfinder, der größte, den die Welt kannte. Wer furchtsam ist, erschafft nichts.
~ Madeline Miller
Aquiles estaba lleno de gracia, como una bendición, y los hombres alzaban los rostros hacia él como los fieles se orientan hacía un sacerdote.
~ Madeline Miller
Se inclinaban hacia él como las flores hacia el sol, ávidos de recibir su brillo. Era lo que había dicho Ulises una vez: él tenía luz suficiente para hacerles héroes a todos.
~ Madeline Miller
But in a solitary life, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
Impiegai un momento a capire. Non l'avrei mai fatto così sfrontato. Ma era naturale che lo fosse. Artista, creatore, inventore, il più grande che il mondo avesse mai conosciuto. La timidezza non crea nulla.
~ Madeline Miller
Quand les sculpteurs façonnent leur pierre, ils le font d'après lui.
~ Madeline Miller
I know. They never let you be famous and happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret". "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this. "I'm going to be the first". He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it". "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it.
~ Madeline Miller