Top 1200 Love And Inspiration Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

The titles that I have won at a young age are a further inspiration to work hard to continue to be successful.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

My inspiration are actors like Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurana, Ranveer Singh.

In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

Drake has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and same with Lil Wayne.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. Nevertheless, people still have these moments of weird desperation, weird longing, weird true love, or weird, powerful lust, and that was a major inspiration for me, too.

I have grown up listening to Strings and they have always been a source of inspiration to me.

I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

There are so many talented actors in my contemporaries and my seniors... I seek inspiration from each one of them.

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from my friend and ultra-runner Scott Jurek.

Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

When you're famous, you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for influence.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Whether it's a leaf from a tree, the supermarket or person, everything is art and movement, it's all inspiration.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them license to walk around and act like assholes. I think I straddle a line between being innately talented and having had to put in some work. You ever go to a party where there are a lot of creative people and they feel like they have license to just act any kind of way? I'm not really a moral person myself, but they just tend to never ever be sincere because they believe their art or the fact that they are artists makes them holy in some way.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.