Inspiration Quotes

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

~ Rob Brezsny

You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.

~ Oprah Winfrey

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

~ William Shakespeare

Just as it is knownThat an image of one's face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of I existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe I does not at all exist as its own reality.

~ Nāgārjuna

Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

~ Lea Michele

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

~ Mary Renault

There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements. Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds. Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxi cation so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway… Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.

~ Mirabai Starr

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

~ Rashi

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

‎You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things. Why not? Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever.

~ C. Joybell C.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

~ Helen Hanson

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.I am the force.

~ Elaine Maxwell

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

~ Charles Bukowski

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

~ James Redfield

Moods can be contagious. Don't catch or spread a bad mood.

~ Marilyn Suttle

At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?

~ Fredrik Backman

Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from I can't do this to I must do this.

~ Toni Sorenson

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

~ Kristin Richter

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

~ Adi Alsaid

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

~ John Corey Whaley

I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.

~ Michael Bernard Beckwith

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

~ James Ross

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.

~ Doug Dillon

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

~ José Saramago

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

~ Allan Lokos

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

~ James Redfield

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

~ Tim O'reilly

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

~ Tom Robbins

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

~ Frances Mayes

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

~ Saadi

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

~ Toni Morrison

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.

~ Chris Arnold

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

~ Mario Puzo

They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive