Inspirational Quotes

As women we’re taught to believe that the more physically appealing we look, the more love we’ll receive in return. If we can just be the perfect cook, cleaner, lover, CEO hottie – well heck, if you don’t value yourself with all those attributes, then what’s it going to take to get your low blueberry muffin self-esteem recipe to rise every morning?

~ Sadiqua Hamdan

We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.

~ Guy T. Simpson Jr.

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

~ Jody Hedlund

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

~ Edwin Lawrence

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

~ Jane Addams

The rape of justice anywhere ,violates justice everywhere

~ Colin Tegerdine

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

~ Oscar Arias

Heraclitus once said we cannot exist without strife but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.

~ Anike Kirsten

How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?The answer came in a question, Ruby.God, in reply, asked, How can you?

~ Lisa Wingate

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

~ Anonymous

It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.

~ Keith Ellison

The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

~ Nafisa Haji

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

~ Gregory David Roberts

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

~ N.k. Jemisin

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

~ Dean Karnazes

...A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno.

~ Patricia Pearson

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

~ Sandy Nathan

And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. Ordered eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

~ Portia De Rossi

Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can’t change.

~ Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.

~ Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Detoxing is nonsense, it's a complete fallacy that the body needs to detox. Removal of waste products and toxins is a continuous process and we don't need to periodically flush them out. The body does a perfectly good job of eliminating any substances on its own. The entire concept of needing to detoxify, purify, or cleanse your body with these regimes is literally made up by the diet industry to sell us more shit (that doesn't work) to fix our bodies (that don't need fixing).

~ Megan Jayne Crabbe

Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon planning the next phase of Herceptin trials with breast oncologists at ASCO, Slamon had jumped into his rundown Nissan and driven home.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

We act individually to collectively clean our communities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)

~ Melissa Mae Palmer

Be healthy, hearty and happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can taste what's in our mouths, touch what's within our reach, smell within hundreds of metres and hear within tens of miles. But it's only through our vision that we are in communication with the sun and stars.

~ Gavin Francis

Research shows that allowing ourselves to forgive and forget can be healthy — it reduces pains, headaches, stress, and leads to a strong immune system. So I say: Why continue to hold grudges? We will just put our health in jeopardy, and lessen the number of pages and chapters that we still need to write in our book of life.

~ Kcat Yarza

Flowers are conscious, intelligent forces. They have been given to us for our happiness and our healing.We can hasten our own evolution by through employing the tools offered to us by a conscious, caring Mother Nature—flowers and their essences.Flower essences allow us to see into the soul of things—into ourselves, our world, and all living beings.Flower essences are a response to the call of an ever-awakening humanity to minister to its spiritual needs.Mother Nature’s pharmacy has long been accessible to those who have pried open her botanical medicine chest. And to those who wish to learn her language—the language of flowers—she bestows her most wonderful secrets of perfect well-being.In keeping with herbalism’s ancient tradition of communing with the plant kingdom, flower essences have evolved as a natural expression of healing—in the simplest ways, through the simplest means.(The) principle of magnetism is strongly operative in flower essences that vibrationally align us with the positive qualities that we seek to uncover within ourselves.How, then, do flower essences work? Very well indeed.

~ Lila Devi

May you make time to relax and be refreshed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will boost your productivity with active exercise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never count calories, never go hungry, only exercise if you want to!

~ Thor Olafson

Always be of good cheer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A sick person is Allah’s guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ‘ al hamdulillah’, praise be to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

~ Kristiane Backer

Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

~ Hannah Whitall Smith

Destructive thoughts prevent your body from collaborating with your deepest wishes and needs. Sabotage has never been the road to success.

~ Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

There will be the IV poles, the divorce papers, the sound of dirt hitting a casket. We will have moments where we can't catch our breath and all the world seems wrong, and we can't help but wonder if He even cares.

~ Angie Smith

Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world I'm not going to give up.

~ Shirley Corder

I make no claims. I have set down the facts, and the only warning advice or admonition I have to give is that any person who makes up his mind to try this method and things he isn't in for the hardest struggle of his life would do well not to try. This isn't frolic. It's a fight.

~ Samuel G. Blythe

You only have one day at a time to live, so live it and choose well!

~ Laura Boniello

Live large!!! In your mind, not in your body.

~ Jean Williams