Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. — Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good. — Marcus Aurelius
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. — Marcus Aurelius
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — William Penn
Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being. — Nicola Salvi
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. — Marcus Aurelius
There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that. — Hafez
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. — Charles MacKay
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time. — Winona LaDuke
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. — Sigmund Freud
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin
Short Wellspring Quotes
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. — Martin Freeman
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. — Robert Bly
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. — Ryuho Okawa
There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation. — Deepak Chopra
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. — Michel de Montaigne
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. — James H. Douglas
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. — Edward Gibbon
We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness. — Sharon Salzberg
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. — Wilhelm Reich
Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses. — Rob Brezsny
Welcome Spring Quotes
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. — Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? — Neltje Blanchan
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. — Ernest Hemingway
Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring. — Lilly Pulitzer
God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world. — Robert Browning
Ah, passing few are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
Thou art a welcome month to me.
For thou, to northern lands, again
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear'st the gentle name of Spring. — William C. Bryant
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. — Wilton E. Hall
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is possible to find what we have cut off from, to "remember" a once vital aspect of ourselves. We may uncover a wellspring of creativity that has been hidden for decades. — Jean Shinoda Bolen
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world. — Joanna Macy
One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future. — Ellis Paul Torrance
Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. — Paul J. Meyer
Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all. — Linda Hogan
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. — Jean Houston
When our burdens are grievous to be borne, when we face a world in which it seems that there is only struggle and no rest, I hope we can remember the immense strength of our sisterhood, the reservoirs that we have within us, and the unfailing wellspring of the Savior’s love for us, even in the midst of adversity. — Sayings
The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace. — Pope John Paul II
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered.... Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each has an unsurpassed lilt which bursts from the deepest wellsprings of life. These are the realities found in the wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains. — Harvey Broome
I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift. — Morgan Llywelyn
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity. — P. J. O'Rourke
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows. — Tom Peters
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. — Estelle Parsons
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. — J. Michael Straczynski
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration. — Earl Warren
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts. — Irvin D. Yalom
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. — Marcus Aurelius
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress. — June Jordan
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation. — Josh Fox
It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within. — Daisaku Ikeda
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism. — Catherine L. Albanese
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. — James Rollins
Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. — Sharon Olds
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity. — Tony Kushner
The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books. — Stan Lee
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences. — Andrew S. Gilbert
Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution. — Janine Benyus
humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil. — Constance Rourke
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art. — Jacques Maritain
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. — Estelle
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