“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
Inspired feeling
Inspired Quotes — page 99 of 313
“Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.”
“He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.”
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
“No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”
“The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.”
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”
“If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.”
“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”
“Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.”
“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.”
“I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.”
“As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.”
“The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]”
“Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.”
“All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.”
“Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.”
“When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.”
“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]”
“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”