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Do I inspire you?" "Every single day. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#will-cooper #inspirational

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. ↗

— E.B. White

#life #profound #inspirational

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inspirational

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#inspirational #lauren-myracle #let-it-snow #mistakes #change

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#art

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distorting #form #great #had #i

You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me! ↗

— Kyo Shirodaira

#strength #inspirational

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#i #i think #life #lives #our

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#inspiration #writing #inspirational