return {
	{
		"RileyGabrielson/inspire.nvim",
		config = function()
			require("inspire").setup({
				mode = "random",
			})
		end,
	},
	{
		"nvimdev/dashboard-nvim",
		lazy = false, -- As https://github.com/nvimdev/dashboard-nvim/pull/450, dashboard-nvim shouldn't be lazy-loaded to properly handle stdin.
		opts = function()
			--   local logo = [[
			--  ▐ ▄ ▄▄▄ .       ▌ ▐·▪  • ▌ ▄ ·.
			-- •█▌▐█▀▄.▀·▪     ▪█·█▌██ ·██ ▐███▪
			-- ▐█▐▐▌▐▀▀▪▄ ▄█▀▄ ▐█▐█•▐█·▐█ ▌▐▌▐█·
			-- ██▐█▌▐█▄▄▌▐█▌.▐▌ ███ ▐█▌██ ██▌▐█▌
			-- ▀▀ █▪ ▀▀▀  ▀█▄▀▪. ▀  ▀▀▀▀▀  █▪▀▀▀
			--   ]]

			local logo = [[
                                                                     
       ████ ██████           █████      ██                     
      ███████████             █████                             
      █████████ ███████████████████ ███   ███████████   
     █████████  ███    █████████████ █████ ██████████████   
    █████████ ██████████ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████   
  ███████████ ███    ███ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████  
 ██████  █████████████████████ ████ █████ █████ ████ ██████ 
    ]]

			local inspire = require("inspire")
			local quote = inspire.get_quote()
			local centered_quote_lines = inspire.center_text(quote.text, quote.author, 52, 8, 52)

			-- Convert the table of lines to a single string with newlines
			local centered_quote_str = table.concat(centered_quote_lines, "\n")

			logo = string.rep("\n", 8) .. logo .. "\n\n" .. centered_quote_str .. "\n\n"

			local opts = {
				theme = "doom",
				hide = {
					statusline = false,
				},
				config = {
					header = vim.split(logo, "\n"),
					center = {
						{
							action = function()
								require("telescope.builtin").find_files()
							end,
							desc = " Find File",
							icon = " ",
							key = "f",
						},
						{
							action = "ene | startinsert",
							desc = " New File",
							icon = " ",
							key = "n",
						},
						{
							action = function()
								require("telescope.builtin").oldfiles()
							end,
							desc = " Recent Files",
							icon = " ",
							key = "r",
						},
						{
							action = function()
								require("telescope.builtin").live_grep()
							end,
							desc = " Find Text",
							icon = "󱄽 ",
							key = "w",
						},
						{
							action = function()
								require("telescope.builtin").find_files({ cwd = vim.fn.stdpath("config") })
							end,
							desc = " Search Neovim files",
							icon = " ",
							key = "c",
						},
						{
							action = 'lua require("persistence").load()',
							desc = " Restore Session",
							icon = " ",
							key = "s",
						},
						-- { action = "LazyExtras", desc = " Lazy Extras", icon = " ", key = "x" },
						{ action = "Lazy", desc = " Lazy", icon = "󰒲 ", key = "l" },
						{
							action = function()
								vim.api.nvim_input("<cmd>qa<cr>")
							end,
							desc = " Quit",
							icon = "󰅘 ",
							key = "q",
						},
					},
					footer = function()
						local stats = require("lazy").stats()
						local ms = (math.floor(stats.startuptime * 100 + 0.5) / 100)
						return {
							"⚡ Neovim loaded " .. stats.loaded .. "/" .. stats.count .. " plugins in " .. ms .. "ms",
						}
					end,
				},
			}

			for _, button in ipairs(opts.config.center) do
				button.desc = button.desc .. string.rep(" ", 43 - #button.desc)
				button.key_format = "  %s"
			end

			-- open dashboard after closing lazy
			if vim.o.filetype == "lazy" then
				vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("WinClosed", {
					pattern = tostring(vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()),
					once = true,
					callback = function()
						vim.schedule(function()
							vim.api.nvim_exec_autocmds("UIEnter", { group = "dashboard" })
						end)
					end,
				})
			end

			return opts
		end,
		dependencies = {
			{
				"folke/persistence.nvim",
				event = "BufReadPre",
				opts = {},
        -- stylua: ignore
        keys = {
          -- { "<leader>qs", function() require("persistence").load() end, desc = "Restore Session" },
          -- { "<leader>ql", function() require("persistence").load({ last = true }) end, desc = "Restore Last Session" },
          -- { "<leader>qd", function() require("persistence").stop() end, desc = "Don't Save Current Session" },
            { "<leader>db", "<cmd>:Dashboard<CR>", desc = "Dashboard"},
            { "<leader>dq", function() require("inspire").show_quote() end, desc = "Show Inspire Quote"}, 
        },
			},
		},
	},
}