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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

... that Fanny Brandeis had chosen. On the face of things you would have said she had chosen well. The inspiration of the roller skates had not been merely a lucky flash. That idea had been part of the consistent whole. Her mind was her mother's mind raised to the nth power, and enhanced by the genius she was trying to crush. Refusing to ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... the "moving effigies which ennoble for all time the charming and venerable fronts of our cathedrals"; that he would express a whole system of philosophy, new to me, by the use of marvellous imagery, to the inspiration of which I would naturally have ascribed that sound of harping which began to chime and echo in my ears, an accompaniment to which that imagery added something ethereal and sublime. One of these passages of Bergotte, the third or fourth which I had detached ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... not slept all night, mounted her bicycle and rode out into the fresh and brilliant sunlight on a forlorn hope. An idea had come to her as an inspiration which, though unlikely, was not an impossibility. In the search for the missing ones, every road in the District was being scoured without success. Since the rain had obliterated all tracks there had been nothing to guide any one in the quest, and nothing had been gleaned from villagers. ...

— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

... his features lighted up with a happy inspiration—"then you will appreciate my situation. I fondly cherished my old picture of you in my memory. Now I have lost it, and I can not help regretting the loss. I do not mean, however, to imply that this new acquaintance—this ...

— A Good-For-Nothing - 1876 • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... says (Gen. ad lit. ii, 15): "We must confess that when the truth is foretold by astrologers, this is due to some most hidden inspiration, to which the human mind is subject without knowing it. And since this is done in order to deceive man, it must be the work of ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

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