Inspiration Quotes

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Victory is a thing of the will.

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

People would rather be wrong than be different.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.