Quotes About Inspiration

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me...

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing MUST be attained.

One never notices what has been done. One can only see what remains to be done.

No puedes esperar construir un mundo mejor sin mejorar a las personas. Con ese fin cada uno de nosotros debe trabajar en su propia mejora.

The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself.

It's hard to become what you don't see.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

Even if this entire book is bullshit, can you think of a more empowering and pragmatic philosophy to embrace?

Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it's not really a problem—it's a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That's okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.

What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?

Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.

Yet there can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

There can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. Viktor E. Frankl

She put down her screwdriver, turned to me, and said, "Don't be silly, Ree. Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

We're born creators with an innate power to bring our ideas and visions into reality.

How can this work me? How can this work for me?

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.

Kyung-sook's mother had taken it as an example that even if you started with nothing, with enough studying, one could accomplish everything.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

As the music stops you'll miss its lilt. Keep dancing, keep listening. Speak up. Ask for more music, more. In case you don't know, what you want is magnificent, yours for the asking, the rhythm of magnanimous exchange.

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.