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Inspirational Quotes
"Positively Inspired Man of Purpose, my style is P.I.M.P.'ish."
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"Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
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"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
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"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
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"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."
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"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
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"Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory, away the aeroplane shot."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn't to overcome the difficulty."
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"The treasure of life, learning."
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"I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down."
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"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
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"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more."
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"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
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"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You're going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet."
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"Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed."
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"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst."
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"I worked, and I was excited about the next time the five of us had a joint class. When that time came, Silvia started by asking us what we were passionate about. I scribbled down my family, music, and then, as if the word demanded to be written, justice."
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"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."
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"What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself."
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"You can create the life you wish to have."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
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"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
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"The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom."
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"I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way."
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"Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse."
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"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are."
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"Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves."
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"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
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"Self-education is lifelong curiosity."
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"Breathing dreams like air."
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"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
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"Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage."
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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
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"The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise."
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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."
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"Tighten your seat belt and enjoy the ride of life."
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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
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"It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything."
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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
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