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#1

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#2

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration

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#3

“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison

tags: anger, control, emotions, inspiration, power, writing

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#4

“speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly...”
― mary anne radmacher

tags: inspiration

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#5

“Ideas come from everything”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: ideas, inspiration

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#6

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing

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#7

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

tags: creativity, inspiration, philosophy, vitality

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#8

“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
― Joel Osteen

tags: encouragement, inspiration, victory

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#9

“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap

tags: belief, faith, inspiration

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#10

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
― Wendell Berry

tags: inspiration

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#11

“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, diet, emotional, fear, fuel, ignorance, inspiration, life, mind, motivation, negativity, people, positivity, soul, spiritual, success

742 likes

#12

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer

tags: commitment, dedication, imagination, inspiration

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#13

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

999 likes

#14

“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
― Charles Caleb Colton

tags: inspiration

202 likes

#15

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspiration

1015 likes

#16

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
― Donald Trump

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#17

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: inspiration, religion

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#18

“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, change, gratitude, inspiration, life, motivational, purpose, seize-the-day

653 likes

#19

“What we do comes out of who we believe we are.”
― Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

tags: actions, inspiration, thoughts

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#20

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#21

“Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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#22

“Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.”
― Caroline Kennedy

tags: barack-obama, endorsement, inspiration, kennedy, politics, voting

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#23

“until the end of the world,all whys will be answered,but now,you can only ask!”
― Bob Marley, Bob Marley: Talking

tags: inspiration

250 likes

#24

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

tags: inspiration, latter-day-saints, lds, maxwell, mormon, neal, righteousness, truth

290 likes

#25

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

tags: books, creativity, inspiration, literature, reading, storytelling, writing

324 likes

#26

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: inspiration

208 likes

#27

“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: despair, inspiration, life, winning

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#28

“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
― Robert Elias M.D.

tags: inspiration, philosophy

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#29

“Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!”
― Mutanat Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

tags: inspiration, passion

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#30

“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: deep-thought, inspiration, soul-seeking

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