We should
get into the habit
of reading
inspirational books,
looking at
inspirational pictures,
hearing
inspirational music,
associating with inspirational friends.
— Alfred A. Montapert
As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
—Bebe Moore Campbell
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
—George Sand
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
—Hermann Hesse
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.
—John Masefield
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
—Margaret Mead
I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!
—Melissa Etheridge
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas Gandhi
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
—Picasso
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter
—Tom Stoppard,
Arcadia
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
—William Feather
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter