Inspiration Quotes

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

~ Allan Lokos

When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.

~ G. Neri

The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.

~ Roberto Bolaño

I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history. What I do favor is the attempt to make sense of things by living within a story. The Christian story, for good or ill, is my inheritance.

~ Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)

~ Kentetsu Takamori

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

~ Erica Goros

There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).

~ Nakia R. Laushaul

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

~ Donna Quesada

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152)

~ Prem Prakash

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

~ Christina Westover

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

~ Scott Belsky

Palestine is the anvil of our souls.

~ Clovis Maksoud

To be saved is here, local and mortal

~ A.r. Ammons

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

~ Marie Howe

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

~ Pamela Glass Kelly

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

~ Allan Lokos

But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. 'Jim, don't tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don't go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.

~ Sol Yurick

If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.

~ Joe Clifford Faust

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.

~ Janet Crain

Humility is not weakness but a price for greatness. Be humble for CHRIST sake and watch GOD take you to places you never dreamt.

~ James C. Uwandu

Wizards are always hungry.

~ Kelly Link

These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.

~ Nikki Rowe

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

~ Kelly Link

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM

~ Rvm

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

~ Lana Parrilla

We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She's Devine.She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful.

~ C.r. Bittar

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight

~ Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

~ Robert Musil

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

~ C.j. Redwine

Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing

~ Oscar Wilde

There's a difference between being alive and living.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

La luz del pasillo iluminaba débilmente mi rostro que se reflejaba de modo fantasmal en el cristal de la ventanilla y me hacía recordar el que tuve en la infancia, el que naufragó para siempre en la despedida, como si aquel niño se hallara agazapado en algún lugar de mi interior esperando un descuido mío para emerger de nuevo en las aguas fangosas del pasado con su sonrisa feliz y sus ojos brillantes.

~ Elia Barceló

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

~ Raquel Cepeda

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

~ E.a. Bucchianeri