Quotes about Inspiration

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.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Whena person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.