Inspiration Quotes

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

~ Sharon Salzberg

You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn’t disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her—and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us.

~ Christina Westover

In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love.

~ Vinayak

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.

~ Marilyn Suttle

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

~ Irving Stone

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

~ Molly Peacock

A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.

~ Finis Mitchell

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.

~ China Miéville

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

~ Marilyn Suttle

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

~ Stephen King

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

~ Marie Howe

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

~ Alice Fulton

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

~ Salvador De Madariaga

The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.

~ Fred C. White

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.

~ Linda Leaming

take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

~ Scott Bradfield

You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.

~ Adrian Tan

There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The best traveler is one without a camera.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

~ Albert Pinkham Ryder

One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.

~ Kay Ryan

No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will always have each other. They use the same vocabulary. They borrow each other's books and music. They share lunches, and they never say anything when Jeremy comes over and takes a shower. They all know Jeremy's father is eccentric. He's supposed to be eccentric. He's a novelist.

~ Kelly Link

Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.

~ Toni Sorenson

Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!

~ Dewayne Owens

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

~ Amit Ray

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

~ Nicholas Boyd Crutchley

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

~ Plato

There is hero in everyone.Never doubt who you are.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

~ Michael Dobbs

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't plant a seed just a day before you need the fruit. ~ Aarush Kashyap

~ Kirtida Gautam

If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than of jobs. If the right skills are developed, the right start-ups and other enterprises will emerge and provide the jobs needed. It’s always the horse before the cart, not the other way round. At a personal level, it will require the realisation of the need for the acquisition of required skills, the discipline to pursue it and the commitment to push through. These will require a great deal of personal courage and effort. But then, the benefit will be immeasurable.

~ Emi Iyalla

Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!

~ Yvonne Pierre

He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.

~ Doreen Devore

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

~ Robertson Davies

Every negative...Has a positive side...

~ Nelson M. Lubao