Quotes on Inspiration

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

Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.