"Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame."
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"When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through."
"No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice."
"The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything."
"Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God."
"Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions."
"As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction."
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
"There is no illness of the body except for the mind"
"I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."
"I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work."
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
"Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that."
"Blood's not thicker than money."
"She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party."
"All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are."
"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
"Better a broken promise than none at all."
"Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world."
"Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass."