Quotes About Inspiration

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,—a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.

every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.

Wherever we go in the mountains, or indeed in any of God's wild fields, we find more than we seek.

To dine with a glacier on a sunny day is a glorious thing and makes common feast of meat and wine ridiculous. The glacier eats hills and sunbeams.

One must labor for beauty as for bread

What can poor mortals say about clouds?

The power of imagination makes us infinite

There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.

Entering the Valley, gazing overwhelmed with the multitude of grand objects about us, perhaps the first to fix our attention will be the Bridal Veil, a beautiful waterfall on our right. Its brow, where it first leaps free from the cliff, is about 900 feet above us; and as it sways and sings in the wind, clad in gauzy, sun-sifted spray, half falling, half floating, it seems infinitely gentle and fine; but the hymns it sings tell the solemn fateful power hidden beneath its soft clothing.

take me into the mountains

But the darkest scriptures of the mountains are illumined with bright passages of love that never fail to make themselves felt when one is alone. I

O poder da imaginação torna-nos infinitos.

All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's Light.

In so wild and so beautiful a region your first day will be spent, every sight and sound novel and inspiring, and leading you far from yourself.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore

Could one of these Sequoia Kings come to town in all its godlike majesty so as to be strikingly seen and allowed to plead its own cause, there would never again be any lack of defenders.

This is the alpenglow, the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.

John Neville Figgis

When your life awakens and you begin to sense the destiny that brought you here, you endeavour to live a life that is generous and worthy of the blessing and invitation that is always calling you.