Inspiration Quotes

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

We tend to find what we look for in other people.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Change yourself - you are in control.

Yes, darling, let me cover your face with kisses-On second thought, just let me cover your face

View life as a continuous learning experience.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.