Top 1200 Spiritual Inspiration Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

The University of Maryland was an inspiration for me, and the relationships I made there have lasted a lifetime.

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

All I can do is be myself, do what I do and if people find inspiration then that's great but it's not what I'm setting out to do.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.

Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

My passion is really candy, but I know that I can use art and fashion as inspiration.

I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

My mum's been my backbone, my inspiration, and the person who's pushed me in my career.

The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

What else is a more heartfelt inspiration than your own fans?

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

I think Honey G is a brand, she's an inspiration for me at least.

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.