Inspiration Quotes

"It’s the moon that moves me. The sunlight makes everything so obvious."

- Bavo Dhooge

"I am the sun and moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one."

- Audre Lorde

"What a little moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little moonbeam comes peepin’ through."

- Billie Holiday

"The moon was reigning all over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up."

- Irina Serban

"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

- Anton Chekhov

"Let the moon teach you the art of being beautiful and lonely at the same time."

- Anand Thakur

"Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise."

- Maya Angelou

"So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you. Everything makes music if you really want it to."

- Giles Andreae

"Be both soft and wild. Just like the moon. Or the storm. Or the sea."

- Victoria Erickson

"Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, With silent delight sits and smiles on the night."

- William Blake

"Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust."

- Bradley Chicho

"The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror."

- Ani DiFranco

"The Moon dances with me the way the sun never will."

- S.B.

"The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile."

- Jay Long

"The sun watches what I do, but the moon knows all my secrets."

- M. Wonderland

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

- Robert Frost

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

- Jean Ingelow

"The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving."

- Debasish Mridha

"The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon."

- Lucille Clifton

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."

- Shannon L. Alder

"When I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end."

- David Scott

"Just as we chose to go to the moon, we know it’s never too soon to choose hope."

- Amanda Gorman

"The day, water, sun, moon, night — I do not have to purchase these things with money."

- Plautus

"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it’s gone through its darkest expression. It doesn’t berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)."

- Carl Jung

"What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished."

- Deng Ming-Dao

"He could well imagine what the Moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the Moon could give a person."

- Haruki Murakami

"Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections."

- Tahereh Mafi

"But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that."

- Ai Yazawa