Inspiration Quotes - Page 7

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.

Visionary is a seed of Creativity

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us.

Take the risk! You will find the right road.

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

Is there any success without an effort?

We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.

You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

You can Live in your Cave OR Dance to your Grave.

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

What is your motivation? When you drill down and ask, "What if there was zero ROI (of any form)?," you'll discover your highest and best use of time.

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

Who are you not to be yourself?

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.

I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I would maintain my persona as Jenni, the Rivera Rebel who had never lost a fight. But deep down inside I knew I had lost a piece of myself that I would never recover. My soul had been shattered, but to the outside world I did just as I had been taught since I was a little girl; I kept my head up and continued forward. It is, after all, the Rivera way.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

Godly character is what you are when you've been tried and proven. It is not what you say you are, or what people think you are but, instead, it is what shines through after you have suffered and have endured. It is the proof of your genuineness.

Become more committed to seeing what's right about you than you are to seeing what's wrong, and soon you'll start to feel a lot different about yourself.

A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It’s a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It’s not an instant transformation.

To be or not to be. Choose be.

Why some dreams of your life make you more restless till they are completed!Because dreams aren't spaced by time, only realities come with this feature

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

The ability to remain constant, whole and playful, even while working technically, concentrating and upholding urgency, is essential to achieve a state of balance that will allow for this to happen. This has to come to life, and cannot stay just an idea or hope or intention or imitation, or ignored. The guarantee and proof that this balance and power is real is in its actualization. That is, that it manifests in functional reality. As in any intention, whether that be vague or specific, an ambition or desire, a goal or state of being, a question or hope, a curiosity or purpose, there exist natural and unnatural obstacles to its realization.

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

we are entitled to a great life – that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continuous happiness, exciting career options, nurturingfamily time, and blissful personal relationships simply becausewe exist. But the real truth – and the one lesson that all thesuccess principles I have learnt are based on – is that there is onlyone person responsible for the quality of the life you live. Thatperson is you.

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word—war.

Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth.

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.

Life is like an ocean; an endlessly elegant dance between serenity and chaos. And while idly watching this can be so beautiful, that’s not what life is for. Don’t just stand on the shore… jump in!

When God gives you an idea, you must act immediately on it.

I’m super fucking sensitive. I love this about myself only slightly more than I can’t stand it. Sometimes I wish I were an unfeeling stone who didn’t take everything so personally and didn’t need so much space all the time. Feeling can get exhausting fast. Mostly, though, I know my sensitivity is a superpower, perhaps my greatest, and it’s the thing that keeps me loving our world in a profound way, when I’m not too busy hiding from it, that is.

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us.

Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...

Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday.

The only thing that gave me comfort in the attic was thinking about my family. Now I'm home, but it's not the home I imagined. Not the family I imagined. I'd convinced myself that they'd continued on with their happy, carefree lives without me, that they were doing it double, because I couldn't do it at all. I was wrong.

Revenge is a dish best served in something microwaveable

World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!

Think clearly here—desire does not produce fun, but yearning does. To identify the transition point between these two, look at desire as accumulating or consuming, and yearning as letting go of or giving. You don’t collect truth or love, for example, you give them, and in the giving they come into being. And you have fun. Real fun, guilt-free fun, resentment-free fun, doubt-free fun; you experience and become the questions you engage—discipline and strength, imagination, independence, fearlessness, trust and freedom, knowledge, truth.

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it- who you choose to be

Transcendence is a word I don’t use often; I prefer transformation. Why? Because the essential game is about using what is in front of you and in you exactly as it is, but finding a way to do something with that that is surprising and an expression of inspiration and intuition. You engage reality and make something out of it that only you can, alchemizing limitation, conflict or what appears to be bad into something else.