Quotes about Inspiration
Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.
— Olga Tokarczuk
But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.
— Olga Tokarczuk
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
— Oprah Winfrey
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
— Oprah Winfrey
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
— Oprah Winfrey
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
— Oprah Winfrey
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
— Oprah Winfrey
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
— Oprah Winfrey