Metaphorical Inspiration Quotes

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it. ~ Kate Chopin

When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy.. that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure. ~ Michelle Obama

I am not the best but I'm living with my best , I learned that effort doesn't betray like people ~ Kang Gary

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere. ~ Marie Forleo

Good writers practice. They take time to write, crafting and editing a piece until it's just right. They spend hours and days just revising. Good writers take criticism on the chin and say "thank you" to helpful feedback; they listen to both the external and internal voices that drive them. And they use it all to make their writing better. They're resigned to the fact that first drafts suck and that the true mark of a champion is a commitment to the craft. It's not about writing in spurts of inspiration. It's about doing the work, day-in and day-out. Good writers push through because they believe in what they're doing. They understand this is more than a profession or hobby. It's a calling, a vocation. ~ Jeff Goins

The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our "inner eye" as such. ~ Sebastian Marincolo

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins. ~ Bertrand Russell

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ~ Charlotte Bronte

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.' ~ Vikas Swarup

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family. ~ Wendy Davis

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility. ~ Olafur Eliasson

When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone. ~ Mary Engelbreit

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less ~ Kurt Hahn

I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. ~ Haim G. Ginott

What makes you a champ isn't found at the starting line or the finish line, but somewhere in between. You've got this. Just keep moving forward. ~ Toni Sorenson

If you put junk in, you're going to get junk out; but if you find inspiration, you're going to come up with things that you would never think of otherwise. Your lungs breathe even when you don't think about it. Your heart pumps without your help. Your brain is working on ideas and solutions even when you don't realize it. ~ Lucas Carlson

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. ~ Carole Katchen

The courage of one can change the course of all. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn. ~ Toni Sorenson

Doing unnecessary things waste time.
Buying unnecessary things waste money.
Doing both cause Poverty. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

Miracles come from love. Miracles come from a seed of hope, a glimpse, a vision of something beautiful that makes our heart sing, something we can fall in love with so much that we are willing to trust and listen to inspiration. We can act on what we have been guided or led to do. That is when miracles happen; that is faith. ~ Laura Lane

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe. ~ Michael D. Higgins

Pythagoras (550 BCE), with his theory of numbers, had been a source of inspiration for those who sought harmony in the Universe. His aim was to show in his philosophy that there was a high, structural, divine order to the Universe. This was a natural habitat for the souls. Mathematics was the tool to investigate this order. ~ Altay Birand

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something. ~ David O. Russell

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy! ~ Ron Hall

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Economist Peter Orszag witnessed the workings of vetocracy and its nefarious consequences. Writing in 2011, he reflected on what he had just witnessed as one of the top economic policymakers in the United States: "During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country's political polarization was growing worse - harming Washington's ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. . . . Radical as it sounds we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic. I know that such ideas carry risk. And I have arrived at these proposals reluctantly: they come more from frustration than from inspiration. But we need to confront the fact that a polarized, gridlocked government is doing real harm to our country. And we have to find some way out of it. ~ Moises Naim

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. ~ Emir Kusturica

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

God is working on your behalf, for your happiness and inner peace. So move forward in faith, believing that He is with you and for you because He is. ~ Toni Sorenson

They told me, I am not good enough, not strong enough, not tall enough, not smart enough. They told me I can not win, but they did not tell me how to lose. They taught me a lot of things, but You can not teach courage. That is why I succeed. ~ Csaba Gabor

What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
- to know who you are and to be that person
- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself ~ Sue Fitzmaurice

For me to simply tell you to find your life's purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that's not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that's why you might be unhappy. ~ S.R. Crawford

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. ~ Trent Reznor

Motivation comes from within, inspiration comes from without. ~ Mike Cook

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints life. Hiding it in fiction. And usually I love the sound of the words, the way they dance on the page. Today, they fall flat. My attention bobbing in the cosmos. All free brain-space is marinating in gap month fizz. I chew my pen, candy-cane style. The million possibilities ahead make it hard to care about right now. I write my answers slowly, each letter carved in stone not ballpoint. I'm going to explore the world, find my passion, try everything! The fizz shoots up my spine and a smile sprouts. ~ Jolene Stockman

You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God. ~ Charles Manson

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God, how I despise myself! I so deeply loathe my voice, my walk, my hands, these clothes, my thoughts. Well, isn't that funny, isn't that shocking? Less than a year ago I was healthy and strong, I was cheerful, tireless, passionate, I worked with these very hands, I could speak to move even Philistines to tears, I could cry when I saw grief, I became indignant when I encountered evil. I knew inspiration, I knew the charm and poetry of quiet nights when from dusk to dawn you sit at your desk or indulge you mind with dreams. I believed, I looked into the future as into the eyes of my own mother ... And now, my God, I am exhausted, I do not believe, I spend my days and nights in idleness. ~ Anton Chekhov

A pen name is a nickname. ~ A.D. Posey

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire ~ George Matthew Adams

What you are afraid of is also afraid of you; face your fear! ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do. ~ Goo Hye Sun

George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer. ~ Euvin Naidoo

The moment you start owning your past is the moment you start changing your future. ~ L.M. Fields

There is no change within a society that does not begin within an individual. ~ Justin Wetch

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief "it's impossible"! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~ Kristian Kan