Inspiration Quotes

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.

~ Sanober Khan

There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.

~ David Nicholls

Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by providing a distinguished literary example

~ Robert Lane Greene

AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words, they fled to find solace and redemption in the dark places of the world.“They were exiled into darkness so their own light might one day return to illuminate the world. They went underground, literally and metaphorically, so that their haven became the hidden places far beneath the feet of their persecutors.“Thus was born the Incunabula: it was forged by fire and persecution, to preserve and protect until the book might rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of demise.

~ Mark Cantrell

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

~ The Prolific Penman

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

~ Rivera Sun

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.

~ Subhan Zein

I like to think of books as lovers; you have to introduce yourself slowly to them, read them one page at a time. Notice them, appreciate them. Respect what they're trying to tell you, let their words caress you, then sink into you, and finally, become a part of you.

~ Stacie Hammond

Her words dance on the page.

~ A.d. Posey

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

~ Sanober Khan

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

~ Erica Crouch

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

~ Sanober Khan

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.

~ Sarah Brocious

Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

~ A.j. Darkholme

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

~ Testy Mctesterson

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. Even in the night, in bed, they woke me.They painted themselves onto the ceiling.They burned themselves onto the sheets of memory laid out in my mind.When I woke up the next day, I wrote the words down , on a torn-up piece of paper. And to me, the world changed color that morning.

~ Markus Zusak

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And empty words are evil.

~ Homer

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

~ John Geddes

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

~ S.r. Crawford

There’s nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It’s like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.

~ S.r. Crawford

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.

~ Matt Haig

Once more, my harp! once more, although I thoughtNever to wake thy silent strings again,A wandering dream thy gentle chords have wrought,And my sad heart, which long hath dwelt in pain,Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress bough,Into the poet's Heaven, and leaves dull grief below

~ Caroline Norton

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them. I write because I could not tell her that my life has fallen into categories. I write because I am no longer able to see the spark in her eyes! I write because she used to read my words but she is no longer by me to read! I admit, sometimes, I wish if I can sleep for the rest of the life! Does this really makes sense?

~ Khaled Al-Ostath

Harrowing The plow has savaged this sweet field Misshapen clods of earth kicked up Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view Last year’s growth demolished by the blade. I have plowed my life this way Turned over a whole history Looking for the roots of what went wrong Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scared. Enough. The job is done. Whatever’s been uprooted, let it be Seedbed for the growing that’s to come I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons— The farmer plows to plant a greening season.

~ Parker J. Palmer

I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.

~ Clive Culverhouse

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.

~ Clive Culverhouse

Have you ever had a shock in life? It takes great hope, faith and courage to bounce back.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between a conventional counsellor and an empowerment counsellor is that a conventional therapist will allow you to dwell in your pit of misery for months, years and possibly even decades; whereas an empowerment counsellor will challenge you to recognise that your past pains and seemingly negative experiences are the very key to accessing your greatest self.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

~ Chris Prentiss

You haunt my days and dreams.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Love is like a piece of chocalate. It's looks and tastes good, but it's dark. What really matters is the inside.

~ Touaxia Vang

Better live than dead.

~ Touaxia Vang

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

~ Rob Liano