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Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Maybe your mom used to tell you that idle hands were the devil’s workshop. She may have felt that if you weren’t working on something productive you would end up getting into some kind of trouble.
I’m sure we can all recall times when we longed for our muse to inspire us, hoped for that next great idea that would catapult us into fame, desperately tried to move past the latest round of writer’s block…
So when I read the above quote it reminded me that inspiration doesn’t just present itself to you on a silver platter. Inspiration typically hits after a long and arduous period of hard work and/or an I-wanna–poke-my-eye-out-with-a-screwdriver monotonous time period.
It’s while we’re living our lives, doing those mundane tasks with loved ones, co-workers and sharing our thoughts and hopes and dreams with each other. It’s when we do something, anything that is productive while letting the inkling of ideas turn themselves over and ruminate and bloom in the back of our minds that inspiration begins to reveal herself.
Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.
~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
elizabeth2560 said:
isn’t it annoying though when creativity has not come for ages and then it appears out of nowhere when you are really really busy and it just flashes by and it was either too quick to catch or you don’t have time to actually do anything with it … so then you have to wait until it comes again … in one of those quiet moments
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dianasschwenk said:
yup that’s annoying Elizabeth! ❤
Diana xo
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rachelcarrera said:
So true, my friend. 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
I knew you’d understand Rachel! ❤
Diana xo
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joannerambling said:
So true indeed
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dianasschwenk said:
Thanks Jo-Anne! ❤
Diana xo
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Healing Grief said:
So true Diana. Inspiration is a gift from giving. 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Love the way you worded that Karen. ❤
Diana xo
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Val Boyko said:
Love this quote and this post Diana 💛
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dianasschwenk said:
Thank you so much Val! ❤
Diana xo
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vanbytheriver said:
A great message, Diana. 💖
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dianasschwenk said:
A self-pep talk haha. Thanks Van. ❤
Diana xo
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David Kanigan said:
And that, punch line, about captures it all.
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dianasschwenk said:
(smiling) Thanks David. ❤
Diana xo
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