Quotes on Inspiration

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.