"A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us."
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"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
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"The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters."
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"As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage."
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"Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration."
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"The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion."
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"I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer."
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"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."
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"Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong"
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"Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity."
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"The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.""
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"You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian"
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"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
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"There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point"
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"If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."
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"Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable."
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"If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how."
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
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"[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world."
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"Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong."
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