"Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets."

-- Democritus

#Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.”
“He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”
“I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.”

Source : "Making Work Meaningful: Towards a Soul-based Workplace", www.pbs.org.
“I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.”
“I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.”
“Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.”
“What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.”
“I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.”

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