“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?” PeopleBelieveLittlesLongImportantUseInspirationSpiritualDesireFaithBuildingDutyTasteUnderstoodGardenCrossesDirectVery GoodChristian InspirationalFranceSpiritual LifeBelieve In MeSpainCastles Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.” IfsHeartKindHas BeensMadeRealSelfReasonEnoughPhilosophyFactsProblemInspirationDesireOpinionHonestColdDevelopmentPureBottomPhilosopherNoiseAbstractAssumptionTouchedVirtuousSelf DevelopmentTruthfulnessHunchesDialecticsUnconcernedNot Honest Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.” FirstsInspirationMovingDesireArtistMotivationPaintingWasteWasting Time Author:Nita Engle
“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.” IfsInspirationFormPoliticalDesireCultureNaturalCreativeSuccessfulGreaterToo MuchPiecesGrowingPossibilityDevelopmentActivityDiversityPerfectionDeeperUrgesAffectedPerpetualRenewalRestrictionNew Possibilities Book:Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
“Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.” KnowsInspirationEarthDesireEnergyNationsPowerfulPayMost PowerfulExpenditures Book:Myself Source: Myself
“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.” GivingChildrenHas BeensArtI CanHelpingInspirationFacesDesireSongGamesAnswersStreetsPaintingSightPaintTerrorNewspapersNightmareRhymeItemsBecause I CanNurseryCaricaturesNursery Rhymes Book:Paula Rego Source: Paula Rego
“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.” KnowsGivingDoneInspirationSpiritDesireSpiritualityIndividualGrowsDecisionEmotionInfluenceProduceHumilityTaughtDivinePraiseFruitAccomplishAccessRecognitionSoilMotivatedArrogantFertileDivine PowerFertile Soil Author:Richard G. Scott