Inspiring Quotes - Page 108

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.

How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.