Inspiring Quotes
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
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The stories abounded, both recounting these cross-continental journeys and perhaps inspiring them – how Hellenic Jason gathered his Argonauts together (including Augeas, whose vast stables Herakles would be forced to clean) for adventure and profit, how he stopped off along the Bosphorus and discovered the land of the rising sun before other Greek heroes headed to Asia in search of Helen, Troy and glory. In the Homeric epics we hear of Jason travelling east where he tangles with Medea of Colchis, her aunt Circe and the feisty Amazon tribe. Lured by the promise of gold (early and prodigious metalworking did indeed take place in the region – perhaps sparking the Greek idea that the East was ‘rich in gold’) and then detained by the potions and poisons of Princess Medea, Jason succeeded in penetrating the Caucasus – a land which, in the Greek mind, wept with both peril and promise. It was here that Prometheus was chained to a rock with iron rivets for daring to steal fire from the gods. Archaeology east of Istanbul demonstrates how myth grazes history.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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What regresses, never progresses.
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One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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Things have changed. I almost feel like it's more adaptable, and you can decide your own career now. I feel artists have so much more of a voice and so much more power now. It's really inspiring to see how a lot of the young artists use their platforms.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Fear him, whom you hate.
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When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
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We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
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Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.
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Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.
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I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.
