It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
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It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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