#inspiration

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. ↗

— Billy Joel

#crucial #even #inspiration #living #make

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#eyes #heart #i #into #looked

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

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ignorance #knowledge #mother #which #wonder

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #fear #hold #out #striking

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#any #been #better #catch #country

The very air in which you live is an inspiration. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#inspiration #live #very #which #you

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. ↗

— Mike Myers

#father #funny #funny guy #guy #inspiration