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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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There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.
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It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
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Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?
- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
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Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
- J.M. Darhower
Sempre
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
- Randy Pausch
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Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.
- Kim Namjoong
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
- Agatha Christie
The Clocks
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Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake
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What hurts us is what heals us
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Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.

People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.

When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner
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There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
- Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy
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Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
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After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
- Kelly Cutrone
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
Trees & Other Poems
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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.
- Stephen King
11/22/63
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He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- Alan Turing
Computing machinery and intelligence
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Team work makes the dream work
- Rap Monster
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Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Flipped
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There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?
- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
- J.M. Darhower
Sempre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
- Randy Pausch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.
- Kim Namjoong
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
- Agatha Christie
The Clocks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What hurts us is what heals us
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.

People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.

When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
- Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
- Kelly Cutrone
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
Trees & Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.
- Stephen King
11/22/63
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- Alan Turing
Computing machinery and intelligence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Team work makes the dream work
- Rap Monster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Flipped
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?
- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
- J.M. Darhower
Sempre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
- Randy Pausch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.
- Kim Namjoong
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
- Agatha Christie
The Clocks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What hurts us is what heals us
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.

People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.

When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
- Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
- Kelly Cutrone
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
Trees & Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.
- Stephen King
11/22/63
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- Alan Turing
Computing machinery and intelligence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Team work makes the dream work
- Rap Monster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Flipped
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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