#inspiration

"Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul."

"Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK."

"Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord."

"Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing."

"Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!"

"Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."Proverbs 1:7 NLT"

"It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate."

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."

"Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will"

"Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart."

"The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens."

"People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work."

"An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils"."

"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."

"When the Prince comes into your life, you will stop thinking and start reasoning."

"The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there"all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game-- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods."

"Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?"

"At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women"