Quotes about Inspiration

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

There was a pain in Muriel to become herself that engaged my heart. I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed. Sometimes her words both thrilled me and made me weep.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.