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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.”
– William Blake
“If you want to know what your experiences were like in the past, examine your body now. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, examine your experiences now.”
– ancient proverb
“You cannot step into the same river twice, because new water is always flowing.”
– Heraclitus
“Every atom belonging to you as well belongs to me.”
– Walt Whitman
“This life’s dim windows of the soul distort the heavens from pole to pole and teach us to believe a lie when we see with, not through the eye.”
– William Blake
“I am That, you are That, all this is That.”
– Veda
“Spirit is that vast stillness which is behind all created things.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
“Out, beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there’s a field…I’ll meet you there.”
– Rumi
“Health results from the natural, balanced state of the doshas. Therefore, the wise try to maintain them in their balanced state.”
– Charaka Samhita
“The essence of all beings is Earth. The essence of the Earth is Water. The essence of Water is plants. The essence of plants if the human being.”
– Chandogya Upanishad
“Life, light and love are symbolized by the three elements of air, fire and water.”
– David Frawley
“Nature is made to conspire with Spirit to emancipate us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the beginning were the waters. Matter readied itself. The sun glowed. And a lotus slowly opened, holding the universe on its golden pericarp.”
– Purana
“Sounds and space, becoming hearing, entered the ears, Sun, becoming sight, entered the eyes, Water, becoming reproductive essence, entered the procreative organs of life.”
– Aitareya Upanishad
“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”
– Hippocrates
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his paitient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
– Thomas Edison
“To eat is human, to digest, divine.”
– Charles Townsend Copeland
“We are what we eat.”
– Cosmic Mother
“What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.”
– Lucretius
“All things are living; all things are dancing in the rhythm of eternal harmony.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate hearts of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.”
– George Leonard
“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.”
– Chinese proverb
“The human body is the universe in miniature. That which cannot be found in the body is not to be found in the universe. Hence the philosopher’s formula, that the universe within reflects the universe without.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Health and disease don’t just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience.”
– Marilyn Ferguson
“Health is the normal and harmonious vibration of the elements and forces composing the human entity on the physical, mental and emotional planes of being, in conformity with the great law of life in nature.”
– Henry Lindlahr
“The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
– Hipposcrates
“Remember only the beautiful things that you have flet, and seen, and experienced. If your five senses behold only the good, then your mind will be a garden of blossoming soul qualities.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“Use the light that is within you to regain your natural clearness of sight.”
– Lao Tzu
“The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.”
– Lorenz Oken
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thogsands of miles and all the years we have lived”
– Helen Keller
“The human body is its own best apothecary. The most successful prescriptions are those filled by the body itself.”
– Norman Cousins
“In a pure mind there is constant awareness of the Self. When there is constant awareness of the Self, freedom ends bondage and joy ends sorrow.”
– Chandogya Upanishad
“Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal ot the moment.”
– John Robbins & Ann Mortifee
“Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of God.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The real voyage of discover consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
“A mind consciously unclean cannot be cleansed by fasting.”
~ Mahatma Ghandi
“Always think of your mind as a garden, and keep it beautiful and fragrant with diving thoughts.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“I have visited in my wanderings, shrines and other places of pilgrimages. But I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.”
– Saraha
“We have what we seek. It is there all the time, it will make itself known to us.”
– Thomas Merton
“The sole purpose of creation is to compel you to solve the mystery and perceive God behind all.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
– William Blake
“It is all an open secret.”
– Ramana Maharishi
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched …but are felt in the heart.”
-Helen Keller
“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”
-Harold Kushner
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”
-Frederick Buechner
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
-Peyton Conway March
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before. starting to improve the world”
-Anne Frank
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.”
-Wayne Dyer
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Philo
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
-Barbara De Angelis
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
-Orville Wright
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. ”
– Galileo Galilei
“Never say more than is necessary.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Ghandi
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.”
~ Martin Luther
“That which does not kill you makes you stronger”.
– Neitzsche
“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
“The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: “Do not do what you are doing now.”
– Joseph Ray
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else.”
– Yogi Berra
“When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.”
– Helen Keller
“There is time for everything.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. ”
– Firdtjof Nansen
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.”
– Johnette Napolitano
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on .”
– Heraclitus
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. ”
– Leo Tolstoy
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
– Alice Meynell
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”
– Richard Cech
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.”
– Gerald J. Simmons
“The first and greatest commandment is, Don’t let them scare you. ”
– Elmer Davis
“Change your thoughts and you change your world. ”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ”
– Andy Warhol
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. ”
– Carol Burnett
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ”
– Harrison Ford
“Nothing endures but change. ”
– Heraclitus
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ”
– Nelson Mandela
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. “
– Author unknown
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon…everything’s different.”
– Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.”
– Brian Tracy
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ”
– Mary Engelbreit
“The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ”
– Anonymous
“Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat. ”
– Prince Phillip of England
“Change yourself, change your fortunes.”
– Portuguese Proverb
“In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it.”
– Mary Norton Gordon
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tse
“To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
– Helen Keller
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed .”
– Storm Jameson
“Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only.”
– Plautus
“My life is my message.”
– Mahatma Ghandi
“The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.”
~ Bhagavad Gita
“His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.”
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
~Wayne Dyer
“One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely gets the fruits.”
~Rig Veda
“People accept only that person as their leader who is radiant with good knowledge and karma (deeds).”
~Rig Veda
“You unite me with Yourself, O True God. Through perfect good karma You are obtained.”
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Those who act in ego do not go beyond karma. It is only by Guru’s Grace that one is rid of ego.”
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Through the perfect karma of good deeds, one meets the Perfect Guru, whose speech is perfect.”
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.”
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all – gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. ~
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem. ~
Rig Veda
~ It is in the best interest of a man to become a Karma-Yogi and work to the best of his abilities and without bothering about the results. ~
Sam Veda
~ Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. ~
Bodhidharma
~ Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act nonvirtuously, suffering results. ~
Sakyong Mipham
~ Love conquers everything even karma. ~
Mettrie L
~ Whatever pleases You is a pure action of karma. ~
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ Karma does not bind one who has renounced work. ~
Bhagavad Gita
~ Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations—and all things we experience are our creations. ~
Sol Luckman
~ Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it. ~
Sakyong Mipham
~ You must acknowledge and experience this part of the universe. Karma is intricate, too vast. You would, with your limited human senses, consider it too unfair. But you have tools to really, truly love. Loving the children is very important. But love everyone as you would love your children. ~
Kuan Yin
~ As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ~
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ When good karma dawns, the wall of doubt is torn down. ~
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ The real happiness of life is in doing ‘karma’. ~
Rig Veda
~ Human beings perform good karma (deeds) in order to attain success. ~
Rig Veda
~ The person desirous of success and strength should perform good karma continuously. ~
Rig Veda
~ By the karma of good actions, some come to serve the Perfect Guru. ~
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
~ Why shall he perform bad Karma who has been properly nurtured for many a thousand months and years? ~
Rig Veda
~ Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. ~
Orison Swett Marden
~ Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~
William Jennings Bryan
~ Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~
Albert Einstein
~ It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. ~
Winston Churchill
~ No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ~
Agnes DeMille
~ Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. ~
Henry Miller
~ We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. ~
Benjamin Disraeli
~ A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ~
Benjamin Disraeli
~ And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~
Carl Schurz
~ To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. ~
Alexis Carrel
~ The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. ~
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
~ Destiny. A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. ~
Ambrose Bierce
~ Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ~
John F. Kennedy
~ There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. ~
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
~ One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ~
French Proverb
~ But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. ~
Alfred North Whitehead
~ Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. ~
David Seabury
~ Man’s ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. ~
Alfred A Montapert
~ Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ~
John F Kennedy
~ It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. ~
Jean Nidetch
~ And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ~
Andre Malraux
~ We are but as the instrument of Heaven.Our work is not design, but destiny. ~
Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
~ If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. ~
Benjamin Disraeli
~ Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. ~
Benjamin Disraeli
~ Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. ~
Benjamin Disraeli
~ Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~
Kin Hubbard
~ You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~
James Allen
~ I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ~
Albert Schweitzer
~ It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~
William Shakespeare
~ It’ in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ~
Anthony Robbins
~ Anatomy is destiny. ~
Sigmund Freud
~ No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ~
Henry Miller
~ Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ~
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
~ Hanging and Riving goes by destiny. ~
William Shakespeare
~ Destiny is always dark. ~
George Herbert
~ They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear. ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. ~
Tryon Edwards
~ Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. ~
Simone Weil
~ We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny. ~
Unknown
~ Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. ~
John Oliver Hobbes
~ Alas! we are the sport of destiny. ~
William Makepeace Thackeray
~ No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. ~
William Cullen Bryant
~ God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~
St. Augustine
~ Life is God’s novel. Let him write it. ~
Isaac Bashevis Singer
~ God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world ~
C.S. Lewis
~ I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. ~
Albert Einstein
~ There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done. ~
James Hudson Taylor
~ Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~
Robert H. Schuller
~ God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~
Mark Twain
~ Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~
Garth Brooks
~ God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ~
Reggie White
~ What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~
Eleanor Powell
~ God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~
Jacques Deval
~ Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ~
Mary C. Crowley
~ God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~
Chester W. Nimitz
~ Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families. ~
Unknown
~ I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ~
Albert Einstein
“Choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~
Desmond Tutu
~ If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~
Voltaire
~ The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. ~
Plutarch
~ Be God or let God. ~
Unknown
~ Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. ~
Christina Rossetti
~ Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~
Patrick Caddell
~ Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ~
Mary C. Crowley
~ What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~
Eleanor Powell
~ There’s a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ~
Sarah Miles
~ We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~
Charles C. West
~ God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. ~
Andre Gide
~ God has editing rights over our prayers. He will… edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~
Stephen Crotts
~ We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it ~
C.S. Lewis
~ God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way ~
Leighton Ford
~ I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze and I won’t know what to say. ~
Ronnie Shake
~ The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. ~
William James
~ When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ~
G. K. Chesterton
~ There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy ~
Ralph H. Blum
~ Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. ~
Edwin Arlington Robinson
~ Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~
Henry Ward Beecher
~ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~
Marcel Proust
~ Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. ~
Margaret Cousins
~ Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~
Henry Clay
~ Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
~ The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ~
Nancy Friday
~ Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ~
Alfred A. Montapert
~ Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. ~
Confucius
~ Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~
Cicero
~ At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~
Albert Schweitzer
~ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~
John F. Kennedy
~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~
Aristotle
~ The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ~
Publilius Syrus
~ The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ~
Aristotle
~ Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains ~
Democritus
~ When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ~
Toni Morrison
~ Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ~
Paulo Coelho
~ Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. ~
Robert Gary Lee
~ Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. ~
Havelock Ellis
~ Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~
Kahlil Gibran
~ The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing ~
Herodotus
~ Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain ~
Elbert Hubbard
~ There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated ~
Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~
Frank Leahy
~ Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~
Barbara Kingsolver
~ Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life ~
Charles Lamb
~ Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, brings you an inner peace and tranquillity instead of anger and resentment. ~
Anon x
~ Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~
Saint Francis De Sales 1567
~ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~
Serenity Prayer
~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~
Dalai Lama 1935
~ Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be. ~
Anon xxx
~ Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803
~ The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. ~
Seneca
~ A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ~
Abraham Maslow
~ Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire – oh, no – love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living – yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. ~
Henry Van Dyke
~ Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. ~
Alice Munro 1931
~ Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we have to erect the ramparts of peace. ~
UNESCO Charter
~ Yes, in the poor man’s garden grow far more than herbs and flowers kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, and joy for weary hours. ~
Mary Howitt 1799
~ You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were you last. ~
Marcus Aurelius 121
~ Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can … As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ~
Abraham Lincoln 1809
~ Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~
Patrick Henry
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein
Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don’t. Usually I think about my condominium.
– Andy Warhol
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
– Blaise Pascal
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things – I am tempted to think there are no little things.
– Bruce Barton
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
– Carl Sagan
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
– Chuang Tzu
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
– Confucius
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
– Constantin Brancusi
I’m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
– Dave Edison
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
– Dr. Seuss, “Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories” ( $ ) ( ? )
Our children go to school to learn to commnicate, and all the teachers do is tell them is shut up.
– Galleger
Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
– George Santayana
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
– Henry Miller
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
– James Branch Cabell, “The Silver Stallion” ( $ ) ( ? )
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
– John Ruskin
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people’s sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
– Judith M. Bardwick
You are all you will ever have for certain.
– June Havoc
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
– Mark Twain, “Notebook” ( $ ) ( ? )
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
– Neil Armstrong
Every positive value has its price in negative terms…The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
– Pablo Picasso
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
– Pablo Picasso
Perspective- Use it or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you’re forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
– Richard Bach, “Illusions” ( $ ) ( ? )
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– T. S. Eliot
I have not failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
– Thomas Edison
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
– Thomas Sowel, “Is Reality Optional?” ( $ ) ( ? )
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
– Tom Robbins
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
– Tom Robbins
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
I’ve found that every time I’ve made a radical change, it’s helped me feel buoyant as an artist.
– David Bowie
I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
– David Sedaris, “Naked” ( $ ) ( ? )
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
– Helen Keller
Things do not change; we change.
– Henry David Thoreau
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
– Henry David Thoreau
Change is the nature of the universe.
– I Ching, “The Book of Change” ( $ ) ( ? )
Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
– Oscar Wilde
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour.
– Robert Frost
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that’s perfectly valid— but don’t go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
– Tom Robbins, “Still Life With Woodpecker” ( $ ) ( ? )
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
– Unknown
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Richard Baker
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
If I’d known I was gonna live this long. I’d have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]
Eubie Blake
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
~ Francis Bowen
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
~ Thomas Carlyle
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
~ James Freeman Clarke
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.
~ Ellen Degeneres
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
~ Heave
As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
~ Gay Hendricks
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~ Horace
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
~Thomas Jefferson
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.
~ Harry J. Johnson
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.
~ Jay Kordich
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
~ Dio Lewis
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
~ William Londen
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
~ Arthur Murphy
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
~Italian Proverb
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
~ Anthony Robbins
To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being.
~ Tom Robbins
If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.
~ Schola Salern
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
~ Herbert Spencer
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~ Brian Tracy
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs
~ Joan Welsh
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace. —-Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
~ Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~
Jim Rohn
~ Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. ~
Jim Rohn
~ Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness–great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ~
Jim Rohn
~ The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. ~
Jim Rohn
~ The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. ~
Jim Rohn
~ Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. ~
Jim Rohn
~ For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ~
Jim Rohn
~ Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. ~
Jim Rohn
~ The book you don’t read can’t help ~
Jim Rohn
~ You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. ~
Jim Rohn
~ You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. ~
Jim Rohn
~ Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ~
Albert Einstein
~ I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. ~
Albert Einstein
~ The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while ~
Albert Einstein
~ Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~
Albert Einstein
~ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Dancers are the athletes of God. ~
Albert Einstein
~ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~
Albert Einstein
~ I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. ~
Albert Einstein
~ The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~
Albert Einstein
~ I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~
Albert Einstein
~ I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ~
Albert Einstein
~ When the solution is simple, God is answering. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ~
Albert Einstein
~ The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. ~
Albert Einstein
~ Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. ~
Albert Einstein
~ He who angers you conquers you. ~
Elizabeth Kenny
~ Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package ~
Unknown
~ Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~
Unknown
~ In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ~
Oscar Wilde
~ If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~
Voltaire
~ Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~
Unknown
~ Don’t kill the dream – execute it ~
Unknown
~ Tears are the silent language of grief ~
Voltaire
~ Never fear shadows…. that always means there is a light shining somewhere. ~
Jonathan Santos
~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~
Aristotle
~ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~
Pablo Picasso
God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die ~
Lucan
~ Money often costs too much. ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~
Confucius
~ Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~
Albert Camus
~ A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~
Phyllis Diller
~ A smile is the universal welcome. ~
Max Eastman
~ A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ~
William Arthur Ward
~ My home is not a place, it is people. ~
Lois McMaster Bujold
~ Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ~
Henry Ward Beecher
~ The manner of giving is worth more than the gift ~
Pierre Corneille
~ It is difficulties that show what men are ~
Epictetus
~ A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~
Mary H. Waldrip
~ Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~
Arnold H. Glasgow
~ Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. ~
Mort Walker
~ Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~
Victor Hugo
~ Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God ~
Karl Barth
~ Seven days without laughter make one weak. ~
Joel Goodman
~ Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~
Raymond Lindquist
*The sole purpose of these articles is to provide information about the tradition of ayurveda, yoga, and meditation. This information is not intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of any disease. If you have any serious acute or chronic health concern, please consult a trained health professional who can fully assess your needs and address them effectively. Check with your doctor before taking herbs or using essential oils when pregnant or nursing.