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Inspirational Quotes
"A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths."
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"If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist."
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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
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"This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail."
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"It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming."
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"I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up."
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"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
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"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
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"When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago."
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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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"Times of adversity are golden moments."
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"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."
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"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
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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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"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."
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"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
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"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."
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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
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"But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me."
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"If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp."
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"If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get."
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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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"Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope, that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face."
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"Extraordinary people always inspire others."
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"We live only for the hope of love."
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"We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves."
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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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"Right now I may not have it all, but I know my future is bright because as long as I live there is hope for my situation."
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"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth."
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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
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"The next time you have the urge to complain, stop and ask yourself what it is you truly want. Do you just want to complain or do you want to improve your situation? Somewhere within each complaint is a genuine desire to improve things, but the complaint by itself is never enough to make it happen. So make the choice not to aggravate a bad situation with your complaints. Choose instead to improve it with your positive thoughts, ideas and actions."
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"One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration."
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"Just write about what bites you and damn the rest."
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"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book."
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.After that I liked jazz music.Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened."
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"We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king."
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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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"With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that -I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.But always keep in mind that heResents familiarity.I bow, and taking off my hat,Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat!But if he is the Cat next door,Whom I have often met before(He comes to see me in my flat)I greet him with an oopsa Cat!I think I've heard them call him James -But we've not got so far as names."
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"Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind."
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"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."
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"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."
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"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."
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"Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others."
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"The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive."
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"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers."
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
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"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
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