Wellspring Quotes

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
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. View quote
Sharon Olds
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. View quote
Jean Houston
The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable. View quote
Pauline Kael
As the nation that developed the Internet, the world expects us to ensure that the digital revolution works as a tool for individual empowerment, not government control. Having faced down the dangers of totalitarianism and fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely -- because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress. View quote
Barack Obama
My fellow Americans, I know that at a time of upheaval overseas -- when the news is filled with conflict and change -- it can be tempting to turn away from the world. And as I've said before, our strength abroad is anchored in our strength here at home. That must always be our North Star -- the ability of our people to reach their potential, to make wise choices with our resources, to enlarge the prosperity that serves as a wellspring for our power, and to live the values that we hold so dear. View quote
Barack Obama
To the virtue of temperance as the preserving and defending realization of man's inner order, the gift of beauty is particularly co-ordinated. Not only is temperance beautiful in itself, it also renders men beautiful. Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal. The beauty of temperance has a more spiritual, more austere, more virile aspect. It is of the essence of this beauty that it does not conflict with true virility, but rather has an affinity to it. Temperance, as the wellspring and premise of fortitude, is the virtue of mature manliness. The infantile disorder of intemperance, on the other hand, not only destroys beauty, it also makes man cowardly; intemperance more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to 'take heart' against the wounding power of evil in the world. View quote
Josef Pieper
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. View quote
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. (Martin Freeman)
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. View quote
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. View quote
Estelle Parsons
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. View quote
James H. Douglas
Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution. View quote
Janine Benyus
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. View quote
Josh Fox
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development. View quote
Li Keqiang
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. View quote
Winona LaDuke
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. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness. View quote
George Eliot
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. (Dean Koontz)
Van Vogt was the pinnacle, the source of power and ideas; the writer to beat. Because he embodied in his astonishing novels and assorted stories what we always say is of prime importance to us in this genre-the much vaunted Sense of Wonder. Van Vogt was the wellspring of wonder. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
When next you turn your eyes to the vast reaches of heaven, gentlemen, you would be well advised to remember that not only is it far more magnificent than the human mind can fathom, it is far more subtle. All the universe is permeated, upheld, knit together, conjoined, encompassed, and contained by the Elemental Ether, which we recognise as an all-pervading, responsive, and intelligent field of energy, eternal and inexhaustible, which is nothing less than the ground of our very being and the wellspring of our existence-that which in ages past and present men have been pleased to call God. View quote
Stephen R. Lawhead
Hear first the four roots of all things: shining Zeus, life-bringing Hera, Aidoneus, and Nestis, who wets with tears the mortal wellspring. View quote
Empedocles