#inspiratio

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #create #great #hear #hear people

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#called #could #experienced #inspiration #memory

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#mary-schmich #sunscreen #beauty

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#completion #inspirational #love #relationships #inspirational

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beautiful #beautiful things #best #cannot #even

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#artist #conscious #i #i am #inspirational

Ideas shape the course of history. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#course #history #ideas #shape

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs? ↗

— Paulo Lins

#clarity #hellraiser #inspiration #beauty

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#filmmaking #great #hendrix #inspiration #jimi