“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 54 of 313
“I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.”
“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”
“You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.”
“Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.”
“If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.”
“After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.”
“Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.”
“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”
“I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, "Why can't we do anything?"”
“Inspiration and genius -one and the same.”
“Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”
“The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
“Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.”
“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
“Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!”