I don't have an inspiration, I don't have a role model. I like to meet different people and gain something from their experiences and their lives. I take inspiration and worth through what they've gone through. I don't have one person I look up to always, apart from the person that I am, if that makes sense. I just look up to the person that I was yesterday and I just try to better myself whichever way I can.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.
Our life is a gymnasium of desire. . . . When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for. "
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.
Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.
What one relishes, nourishes.
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. . . To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.
Inspiration is intention obeyed.
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.