"By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you."
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"Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind - the wind is always blowing up there - purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!"
"Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses."
"I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters."
"A Warrior is always vigilant."
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
"Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
"What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism."
"Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets."
"We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration."
"[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear."
"In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility."
"I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead."
"It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't."
"Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage."
"If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate."
"Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish."
"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school."
"The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."