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Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

Did the walls of the barn start to tremble With a glory they could not contain? Did anyone wake with the feeling Of peace that they could not explain? Oh the love must have been overwhelming As it warmed everyone in it's flow For all of the earth is still telling of 2000 Decembers ago.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.

Did you tell freedom hello for me?

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

Do not find peace. Find passion.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.

Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.

Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.