#inspiration

I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#life-lessons #music #writing #beauty

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#coltrane #inspiration #kid #motion #motion picture

So many people die with their dreams in their hands. ↗

— Alex Rogers

#inspirational #life #life-and-death #motivational #death

i’m very expressive. i deserve to feel pretty. i kissed the blarney stone. i am strong. i am brave. im a good friend. I’m a good sister. I’m a good wife. i am a good in-law. I’m a good daughter. i am a good niece. I’m a good beagle mother. i am a good granddaughter. i work hard for it, honey. im superfly TNT motherfucker. im a pilot of the airwaves. im a better third baseman that brooks robinson. I B-E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E. i have exceptionally beautiful feet, eyes, ears, hips, hair, teeth, breasts. and shoulders. and fingernails. in a different pen, she added, and eyelashes and eyebrows, plus in yet another pen, and nose. and chin. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#beauty

God can, will, and does speak to us through our dreams". ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#numenous #r-alan-woods #dreams

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#humorous #inspirational #life #funny

For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspirational #profound-realizations #beauty

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#inspirational-quotes #interesting-quotes #sorrow #beauty

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration. ↗

— Page McConnell

#find #going #influences #inspiration #know

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self. ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#knowledge #life #natural-beauty #power #wisdom