#insp

Inspiration is God making contact with itself. ↗

— Ram Dass

#god #inspiration #itself #making

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#i #inspiring #nakedness #seen #sight

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. ↗

— Frank Black

#chord #even #first #first thing #get

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#defends #disciples #eyes #guides #him

Let each man exercise the art he knows. ↗

— Aristophanes

#art #each #exercise #knows #man

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#inspiration #like #looking #out #rather

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fear #glorious #gloriously #had #inspirational

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dreams #inspiration #painting #art

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#change #inspirational #philosophy #wish #change

Perfect love is perfectly patient. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#inspirational #love #patience #experience