In college, my friend Lindsey introduced me to Rainer Maria Rilke.  I have a quote of his from Letters to a Young Poet up in my cube at work:

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your hear and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not seek the answers, which cannot be gien you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Wow!  I get inspired everytime I read that!  And, it is not even his poetry:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke