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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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It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.
- Wendy E. Slater
Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14
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My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #9 )
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Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
- Imam Ali
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
- Elbert Hubbard
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How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
- Trina Paulus
Hope for the Flowers
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Nobody steals books but your friends.
- Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon
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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.
- Anne Lamott
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
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If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
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I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers
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Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
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Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.
- Rainbow Rowell
Carry On
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
- Margaret Mead
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Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
- Katie Kacvinsky
Awaken
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It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.
- Wendy E. Slater
Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #9 )
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Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
- Imam Ali
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
- Elbert Hubbard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
- Trina Paulus
Hope for the Flowers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody steals books but your friends.
- Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon
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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.
- Anne Lamott
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.
- Rainbow Rowell
Carry On
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
- Margaret Mead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
- Katie Kacvinsky
Awaken
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.
- Wendy E. Slater
Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #9 )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
- Imam Ali
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
- Elbert Hubbard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
- Trina Paulus
Hope for the Flowers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody steals books but your friends.
- Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.
- Anne Lamott
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.
- Rainbow Rowell
Carry On
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
- Margaret Mead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
- Katie Kacvinsky
Awaken
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