#inspiration

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#artist #conscious #i #i am #inspirational

Ideas shape the course of history. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#course #history #ideas #shape

It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part. ↗

— Dana Candler

#beauty #christian #dana-candler #heart #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

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you If you're young at heart. For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind If you're young at heart. You can go to extremes with impossible schemes. You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams. And life gets more exciting with each passing day. And love is either in your heart, or on it's way. Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth To be young at heart. For as rich as you are, it's much better by far To be young at heart. And if you should survive to 105, Look at all you'll derive out of being alive! And here is the best part, you have a head start If you are among the very young at heart. ↗

— Carolyn Leigh

#dreams

In the end, if you create something of beauty, not only will it be said that you were here, but that you ought to have been. ↗

— rmdechazal

#beauty

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#anarchy #because #believe #bully #gandhi

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

— Babe Ruth

#back #fear #hold #out #striking