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Inspiration

noun

Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity.

A product of your creative thinking and work. Synonym: brainchild. "After years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"

A sudden intuition as part of solving a problem.

(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings. Synonym: divine guidance.

Arousing to a particular emotion or action. Synonym: stirring.

The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing. Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake.

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"Inspiration" Quotes from Famous Books

... not know what possessed me to make a scene, before we got out of the presence of the sultan, but it all came to me sudden, like an inspiration comes to a poet. I had been eating some fruit that I bought in a paper bag, and when I had eaten the last of it, I wondered what I would do with the bag, and then I thought what fun it would be to blow the bag up, and suddenly burst ...

— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck

... was naturally her first thought. "What should be a young mother's first inspiration?" Her child lay on the sofa asleep before her; and she began in her ...

— A Little Dinner at Timmins's • William Makepeace Thackeray

... God, to put no reliance on his reason, and the man who is compelled to abandon it for the guidance of a troubled imagination will be far more likely to consult and admit the most stupid fanaticism as the inspiration of the Most High. In his blindness, he casts at his feet duties the most sacred, and he believes himself virtuous in outraging every virtue. Has he remorse? his priest appeases it speedily, and points out some easy practices by which he may soon recommend himself to God. Has he committed ...

— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

... eighteenth century. In the Lutheran Church the Pietists, though they never seceded, somewhat resembled the English Methodists; the Moravians formed a separate community, while from the "Reformed" or Calvinistic Church certain circles of spiritually-minded people, who drew inspiration from the mediaeval mystics and later writers like Boehme and Madame Guyon, gathered into more or less independent groups for religious intercourse. Of these last Tersteegen is a representative singer. Here are three verses from his best ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... in eagerly, for an inspiration had come to him. "There's no reason why you should suffer, in any event. Apparently I am a suspected person. I may just as well be a kidnapper as not. You must allow me to inform the Judge that I was abducting ...

— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

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