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"Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality."
"A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
"Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm."
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
"The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being."
"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."
"If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised.""
"Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person."
"A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music."
"Creativity inspires me."
"Only poetry inspires poetry."
"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations."
"The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted."
"I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature."
"Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing."
"True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing."
"If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing."
"Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing."
"New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
