Quotes about Inspiration

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.