Quotes about Inspiration

If you're around people who are making money in great and joyful ways, you'll not only see what's possible for you, but you'll be motivated to push yourself.

Another revealing exercise is visualization.

There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.

And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."