"I'm learning daily the walk that comes with the talk, can bear a heavy burden. Being a leader, a mentor, a STRONG WOMAN, means you will be tested, challenged, embattled. You don't get to just say you are "tough" and "no-nonsense" and declare you are not taking crap. You better be ready to withstand the shots that come with it. People aren't just gonna get out of your way or respect you simply because you say you are "that chick". You better be ready to defend that crown and protect it too! In the end, when you know you've stood for something, you protected your dignity, you can share the lessons because you live by what you teach, and you inspired someone to be true to who they are and to take control of their destiny and walk into their strength and greatness., you will understand why it is so important for you to shoulder the struggles. Your purpose is greater than the discomfort of hard knocks. In the end, owning all that is empowering is worth the price of admission.

"Great benefit can be found in celebrating those who inspire through divine perserverance and strength, when everyone would understand if they gave up.

Behind you there lays a long series of footprints. And does the nature, direction and depth of them inspire others to walk in them or run from them?

Folklores are inspired by truth but coloured with fantasy.

I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

I started out as a reader of all genres that captivated me. It inspired me to write the stories I wanted to read.

Opinion is the enemy of the artist because it arms his uninspired moment against his Inspirational.

Delight it was ? to be someone's Inspirational. I got inspired ? to be someone's Inspirational.

Only a healthy mind and body can think positively, make informed decisions, and inspire others.

I have known such joys the likes of which might have inspired a Homer or a Shakespeare.

All people are inspired who ignore society's expectations and live how they want to live.

Focus more on people who inspire you rather than annoy you. You'll get much further in life.

Love is the miracle that inspires us to love one another

All people are inspired who ignore society's expectations and forge their own path in life.

Admirer quelqu'un, s'inspirer de son parcours, c'est avant tout grandir et devenir soi.

I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators - Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement they engendered. I'm continually inspired by Rembrandt, Breughel (I've wondered whether his brilliant "Tower of Babel" had inspired Tolkien's description of Minas Tyrith), Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer, and Turner; it's not necessarily that they influence my work in any particular direction, more that their example raises my spirits, re-affirms my belief in the power of images to move and delight us, and shows me how much further I have to go, how much is possible. Having visited Venice and Florence for the first time, I am besotted with the Italian Renaissance artists - Botticelli, Bellini, da Vinci and others. Their work is calm, controlled, and yet each face and landscape contains such passion. In Botticelli's paintings, every pebble and every leaf is rendered with a religious devotion; there is reverence inherent in paying such close attention to every stone, turning painting itself into a form of worship, an act of prayer.

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises ? mon ?gard, ? mes d?buts, furent qu'elle ne vit pas qu'il ne fallait rien d?finir, rien comprendre, rien limiter, rien pr?ciser, parce que tout ce qui est sinc?rement et docilement nouveau - comme le beau d'ailleurs, porte sa signification en soi-m?me. La d?signation par un titre mis ? mes dessins est quelquefois de trop, pour ainsi dire. Le titre n'y est justifi? que lorsqu'il est vague, ind?termin?, et visant m?me confus?ment ? l'?quivoque. Mes dessins inspirent et ne se d?finissent pas. Ils ne d?terminent rien. Ils nous placent, ainsi que la musique, dans le monde ambigu de l'ind?termin?. Ils sont une sorte de m?taphore.

Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike -- breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for Inspirational in our set-up, you'll wait for ever.

"I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether it's not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and make scrapbooks and tell stories. That that's how we humans find our way to immortality. This is not a new thought; I've had such thoughts before. But I have a new thought now.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

You can't inspire and lead people without earning their attention. You achieve that in a counter-intuitive way ? by paying close attention to what interests them.

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152)

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

It's never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can't just bombard people with messages anymore.