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Inspiration is a powerful force that drives creativity, innovation, and personal growth. Throughout history, countless individuals have shared their thoughts on what it means to be inspired and how it fuels action. This collection of quotes highlights the many ways inspiration shapes our lives and encourages us to dream, create, and push beyond our limits.   ◀ Back
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Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.
- Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
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We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
- Melissa Marr
Ink Exchange
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Hope springs forever.
- J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
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Life sucks, and then you die...
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
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You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?
- David Nicholls
One Day
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I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.
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Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
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There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
- Paul Graham
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
- Martin Amis
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
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It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
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Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
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Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
(Gilraen's linnod)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
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We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.
- Alex Harris
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Failure is a greater teacher than success
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
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I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
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there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.
- Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
- Melissa Marr
Ink Exchange
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope springs forever.
- J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life sucks, and then you die...
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?
- David Nicholls
One Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
- Paul Graham
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
- Martin Amis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
(Gilraen's linnod)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.
- Alex Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Failure is a greater teacher than success
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.
- Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
- Melissa Marr
Ink Exchange
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope springs forever.
- J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life sucks, and then you die...
- Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?
- David Nicholls
One Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
- Paul Graham
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
- Martin Amis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
- Susan Polis Schutz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
- Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.
- Chuang-Tzu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
- Huseyn Raza
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
(Gilraen's linnod)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.
- Alex Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Failure is a greater teacher than success
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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