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Thu 30 Sep 2021

Flame

Posted by PJ under fire, gratitude, inspiration, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In everyone’s life at some time the inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

—attributed to Albert Schweitzer

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Wed 19 Aug 2020

Gratitude

Posted by PJ under art, creativity, failure, gratitude, inspiration, quote of the day, success
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Random quote of the day:

“When we wake up in the morning we are inspired to do some certain thing and we do do it. The difficulty lies in the fact that it may turn out well or it may not turn out well. If it turns out well we have a tendency to think that we have successfully followed our inspiration and if it does not turn out well we have a tendency to think that we have lost our inspiration. But that is not true. There is successful work and work that fails but all of it is inspired.”

—Agnes Martin, “On the Perfection Underlying Life,” lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 31 Jul 2019

Waking

Posted by PJ under art, inspiration, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The greatest art symbolizes not those things that we have observed so much as those things that we have experienced, and when the imaginary saint or lover or hero moves us most deeply, it is the moment when he awakens within us for an instant our own heroism, our own sanctity, our own desire.”

—W. B. Yeats, Samhain: 1905 from The Collected Works, Vol. VIII

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Wed 13 Dec 2017

Combustible

Posted by PJ under inspiration, novels, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion—the oily rags of the head and heart.”

—Stanley Elkin, The Paris Review, Issue 66, Summer 1976

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 7 Mar 2017

Inspired

Posted by PJ under inspiration, knowledge, quote of the day, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge; it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”

—Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms

 

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Fri 15 Jun 2012

Clubbing

Posted by PJ under inspiration, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.”

—Jack London, “Getting Into Print,” in Practical Authorship, ed. James Knapp Reeve, 1905

This quote is often paraphrased as, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

 

 


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