#inspiration

"You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing..."

"Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won."

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

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none."

"You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

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

"Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well."

"I’ve always hated the “Who are you?"question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator."

"You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo"

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

"Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps."

"Acquire knowledge and enjoy its freedom or allow someone to fill you with theirs and live within the jurisdiction of theirs."

"If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam."

"Inspiration works well at boiling point."

"You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask"

"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse."