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Inspirational Quotes
"There is a budding morrow in midnight."
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"Always let your inner light shine. By doing so, you not only light a path for yourself, but also light a way for others."
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"You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient."
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"Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration."
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"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."
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"Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence."
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"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."
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"If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration."
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"One always expects something else."
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"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
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"Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock."
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"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
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"It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?"
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"What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes."
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"She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort. Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music had escaped, but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had to be. It was the song of an immense deliverance."
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"As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not."
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"My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!"
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"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration."
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"If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps."
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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
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"There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there."
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"Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do."
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"Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve."
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"Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."
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"Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason, Oh dare to do it, Buddy! Trust your heart. You're a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I'm feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I'd give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart."
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"We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own."
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"Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized."
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"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
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"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion."
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"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."
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"With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth; the low whispering wind left its hiding-place among the clefts and hollows of the hills, and wandered among the rustling herbs and trees, waking the flower-buds to the life of another day."
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
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"A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit."
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"Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up."
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"True success is the soundness of being."
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild."
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"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
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"To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. We are all guilty of crime, the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What these powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything God-like about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
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"Books are for nothing but to inspire."
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"There is nothing like passion. The fire that burns in our heart."
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"Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come."
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"It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies."
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"Let your star shine so bright such that those still in darkness can finally see the light."
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"The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating."
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"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."
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"Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!"
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