Quotes About Inspiration

although the rain would miss us I could see quite well the silver bolts of lightning forged on the anvil of the great thunderhead. I slipped downstairs and out the front door and sat on the porch steps. A wind cooler than anything I'd felt in days breathed into my face and I watched the storm as I might have watched the approach and passing of a fierce and beautiful animal.

One kind thing is the seed from which a great goodness grows. It is not hope we hold to, Niece. It is belief in the power of that growing goodness.

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul tells us exactly what they are: faith, hope, and love.

William Kent Krueger

Svajon?s išlaisvina.

Spirit is at the heart of everything, and there's nothing more powerful. Trust your spirit.

In every good tale there is a seed of truth, and from that seed a lovely story grows. Some of what I've told you is true and some . . . well, let's just call it the bloom on the rosebush.

good things are made even better when you share the story of how they came to be.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

is wise, and if we listen to it, we will understand how to breathe again. I hope Meloux is right.

Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.

I love books. They connect you with the past and the present, with original minds and noble spirits, with what living has been and meant to others. They instruct, inspire, shake you up, make you laugh and weep, think and dream. But while they do enhance experience, they are not a substitute for it.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire, but we lose everything when it is history that drives us completely, as it drove Nat and his mother and her mother

History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire,

The greatest spirits of the heathen world, such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Antonius, etc., owed all their greatness to the spirit of devotion.

If, looking back upon the lengthened way My feet have trod, since, long ago, I left Those well-known shores, and when mine eyes are filled With tears, I take the pencil in its turn, and shading light the landscape spread below..."

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

Dream and Dedication are a powerful combination.

Oh phosphorescence. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.