Quotes about Inspiration

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

Christianity was permitted to tell Sunday school stories as object lessons to inspire morality, but it was not allowed to claim that those stories were true.

In every age, the gospel fulfills people's most profound aspirations.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. It

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.