Quotes on Inspiring

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.