Quotes and inspirational people

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller (June, 1880 - June, 1968)

Helen Keller was both deaf and blind, but her fierce motivation to show herself she could overcome, manifested in enabling her to become the first person with both of these afflictions to graduate from college. She was an inspiration and left us with some of the most memorable quotes.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates (460 BC - 370 BC)

There is no historical figure that has done more for medicine than Hippocrates. His Hippocratic School of Medicine revolutionized the medical field and is credited with improving productivity in the advancement of medicine.

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
Patanjali

Patanjali is credited with the creation and compilation of the Yoga Sutras. These sutras, based upon the structure of the holy Indian text, Bhagavad Gita have become an inspiration to students around the world looking to reach a higher state of consciousness.

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies."
Leo Tolstoy (September, 1828 - November,1910)

Fiction writer Leo Tolstoy is best known for his prolific Novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He was also known for his thoughtful philosophy on nonviolent resistance and was an inspiration for the positions taken by both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Buddha

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so let us all be thankful."
Buddha

"He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain."
Buddha