Creative Manifestos
I came across this beautiful list of inspirational quotes from Brain Pickings, Five Manifestos for the Creative Life:
Empower yourself and realise the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
When I find a good quote, I like to print it out or illustrate it to tape it above my computer. On days when I feel tired or uninspired, I take a breath, look at one of my quotes, and try to embody the essence of what it is that I liked about the quote in the first place.
For the same reason, I’ll also print out emails from friends, teachers, and family to help keep me motivated. Kind words are a reminder that what we’re doing is useful, whether it’s related to your blog, your job, or your family. With writing in particular, a good quote can help get you writing when (you think) you’d rather be watching TV. It can also jump start your own story. How many times have you looked at a quote and thought, “Okay, now’s my time to write something memorable”?
Where do you find inspirational words? Better yet, what’s your favorite quote that you’ve written yourself?
I just love the quote you’ve put in the post. So very true. I must try and remember it!
Empower yourself – very important words. we will build a better world if we do that, and teach our children to empower themselves! show others that it is possible.
…the best
Erica V is a gem. May the force be with her, and I wish her victory over the dark side. “On days when I feel tired or uninspired, I take a breath, look at one of my quotes, and try to embody the essence of what it is that I liked about the quote in the first place.”
Not that I came up with it…but, my favorite NOW is…”Do Not Make Simple Things Complicated!”…I use it all the time!
Stand in thine own stillness, and be at one with creator!
stand in thine own stillness, and be at one with the creator
I love this! I am a busy person and this quote gave me both comfort and perspective
what could be better than appreciating creativity and being creative? Nice piece!
Thanx Ms Erica for this quote. I needed that reaffirmation today….en theos..jim
Thanks for this quote, I really needed it today.
I lovelovelove favorite quotes and have them in all sorts of places, but here’s one that I keep so that I smile and remember.
“Artists are like mice. They need old houses where no one can bother them and they can just go about their business and do what they have to do.” Bearden.
When my husband is at work and my son at work and the old house mine, and I need to wander around and think or wander outside and pull a handful of weeds, I remember those words.
Nice quote!
I have my own ‘motivational line’ to tell myself when I’m about to give up for the day: “Stay curious!”
Because curiosity, to me, is the fuel of life.
I fully agree with you!
My quote: ‘ when i can see my girl without even closing my eyes, then I think that I’m in LOVE’
It’s not very poetic, but “write what you know” seems like good advice for bloggers. Nicola
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I dwell in possibility – Emily Dickinson
“The best way to accomplish ANYthing is to DO.”
Reblogged this on Chris Donner, Mystery Writer and commented:
An inspirational quote for you.
this is definitely my favourite inspirational quote so far;
http://shelleymoore116.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/173/
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you weren’t close enough,” Robert Capa allegedly said. And this is not just about space — and therefore it might not only apply to photography, now that I think of it. Remembering this line motivates me to try and get “closer”.
Inspiration comes from everywhere for me. I just never know when something is going to strike me as inspirational. Magazines, books, my kids, my spouse, a billboard, a cereal box, a sermon, a song, stupid Michigan drivers… life certainly does not lack for inspiration. I have a lot of inspirational quotes, but I’m not sure I’ve written any of them. I like “you’re either green and growing or ripe and rotting,” but I’m pretty sure I hear that at a seminar once. I also like “be comfortable with being uncomfortable,” and maybe that one is mine. Love to collect inspirational quotes too.
“What the heck, practicing an art isn’t a way to earn money. it’s a way to make one’s soul grow. Bon voyage.”
- Kurt Vonnegut -
Agreed!
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Jakes its okay you were in hurry man, no need for being sorry.:)
This is so true…and I have always tried to instill this in my children and their children…”Do what you love and you will be happy—doing what is forced upon you makes your life bitter”…….so if you love to sew …do sewing>>> you love math….be an accountant>>> if you love creating young minds…be a teacher…….
Whatever the human mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.
A man who cuts his own wood will be warm twice. These are old quotes but I don’t remember who made them. I’ve always liked/ if you can’t say something nice about someone, talk about something else.
I don’t have a quote, my inspiration comes from within and if this does not work, I read up on other bloggers posting, never fails. These talented people have always got something to inspire myself and each other with. We can all come up with quotes, but what really does work? http://wp.me/p1j16x-3p
“Wipe the smile off your face! Experiments have shown that the simple act of frowning makes you more skeptical and analytic in your thinking.” (“Newsweek”, January 2012)
Is there going to be a new postaday badge for 2012?
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My all time favorite quote formed a part of a poem which I had posted about some time back
http://theunofficialversion.com/2011/12/11/where-the-mind-is-without-fear/
This quote always inspires me and gives me strength for the day.
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strengh; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 KJV
Oh i have come up with a new one just now, so read it… ” you are a good writer if you can perfectly describe how do you feel.”
i felt this when I saw a really nice dream, I wanted to BLOG IT! But I didn’t got proper words to describe it.
So i have to keep it in memories…
That is such a brilliant statement. I love it!
Now, if I can just keep my mood stable enough to put it into action
My favourite quotes are in a blog I wrote a few days ago
pipkinera
This one is for Tom, who responded, wipe the smile off your face-Tom old boy life as an experiment and we all started out following,(remember mom and dad) some of us will become skeptical, but it’s not based on following, you’re thinking does affect your skepticism. it’s not who or what you follow, but the value of the information you come away with.
My current favourite quote is “You just keep going, art is life and there is no wealth but life, to mangle John Ruskin…”, it was said to be by my photography teacher in a moment of supreme insecurity about my work, whenever I’m stuck I think of that quote and find a way forward.
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Right now, one of my favorite quotes is from Erma Bombeck, “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.’”
There is an online bulletin board called Pinterest. I am addicted to it and can keep all of my favorite quotes/ideas/other interests in one or more places online. Check it out- it is fantastic! Best wishes, Stephanie
i love the goldmine of quotes of your portal
krishna pachegonker
india
Birds are not bounded by any boundaries because they do never question.
THEY ARE FREE LOVELY
Erica v what a idea you have given I am coming up with so many quotes. My next one is: ” love often starts with unconditional happiness…”
Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. – Carl Sagan
One of the most inspiring quotes ever. No religious platitudes could ever compare.
This one deserves my comment! A word a day! This bragging dot in a geometric dot!
“We need to move from a multicultural to an intercultural community, from a static description of the existence of many to a dynamic recognition of interaction, mutual influence, and interconnectedness.”
Thank you Inspiration for the collection of quotes. You “inspired” us to contribute!
Here’s a few of the quotes I’ve written that inspires me
Hope you all find it inspiring as well!
http://wp.me/p15uKP-No
Things that matter.
Friends Matter.
Friends are the branches of one tree
The winds our strength we send to thee
When harsh winds blow we hang on tight
Though far away and out of site
Our spirits flow to you we send
We know your ache our hurting friend
Softly Sisters send and share
We know the burden that you bare
A tree grows blossoms on the branch
Soft wind in spring can make it dance
Renewed again in the spring light
It grows once more with strength and might
Your burdens great our friendships strong
We love you friend our friendships long
We will wait to see your smile
Never lost just gone for awhile.
Written by Susan Oliver.
THEY
They came from all walks of life
Some sharper than your knife
They came to earn
Some with a dire burn
Some so funny
Some so fussy
Some so sheik or shy
Eyeing their gal or guy
Others focused on long hours
Braving the cold and showers
But with the first ring
Listen how they sing
Then nothing else now matters
Only the whip of their masters
My favourite quote comes from Ben Okri in ‘To an English friend in Africa’
Be grateful for life as you live it.
And may a wonderful light
Always guide you on the unfolding road.
March 1991, from ‘An African Elegy’.
Such beautiful words to live by…..
LOVE this quote!
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I thought the quote in this post, and the following paragraphs, were very interesting. Check it out!
This poem was written by Mother Teresa and is engraved on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta.
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people often will forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
This is a good one buddy! Living your talent makes a lot of people jealous and envious! I believe their envy is caused by inability to see something good in themselves! Ralph Waldo Emerson said the last on envy when he calls it suicide,and wraps it up by saying there is always something new in nature, embedded in everyone!
Envy kills one’s talent! Alas, people who want to act their talent will be discouraged when they get to see how envious and jealous people become, just because they see their talent in motion! I like that quote because it spells it out that your responsible if you fail to use your talent, use it, even if negative people mock you, laugh at you, discourage you! Time will justify you! With time they will come to respect you! Victory!
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Oh how much different our lives can become if we could just realize how important we really are.