Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward god and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.