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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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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
- e.e. cummings
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
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Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
- Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
- Harlan Ellison
Paingod and Other Delusions
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
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All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.
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Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
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I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
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So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
- Mildred D. Taylor
The Land
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
- Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
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Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
- Veronica Roth
Divergent
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.
- Jerry Spinelli
Love, Stargirl
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
- e.e. cummings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
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Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
- Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
- Harlan Ellison
Paingod and Other Delusions
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
- Mildred D. Taylor
The Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
- Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
- Veronica Roth
Divergent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.
- Jerry Spinelli
Love, Stargirl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
- e.e. cummings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
- Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
- Harlan Ellison
Paingod and Other Delusions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
- Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
- Mildred D. Taylor
The Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
- Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
- Veronica Roth
Divergent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.
- Jerry Spinelli
Love, Stargirl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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