Susan Smith Jones, PhD

If you are always “under the gun”—which could mean a continual struggle to make financial ends meet or traveling all the time because you're at the peak of your success in your career—you can be stressed out.

~ Choose to THRIVE

Inspirational Quotes

The following is a collection of all the inspirational quotes at the bottom of the pages of this website. Hovering your mouse over the quote area will pause the slideshow.

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From: 10 Steps to a Healthy & Balanced Life

Kindness is the language we all understand. Even the blind can see it and the deaf can hear it.

~ Mother Teresa

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls.

~ Henry David Thoreau

From: Weight Loss

If you have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

~ Isaac Newton

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

~ W. Clement Stone

From: Conquer Colds & Allergies

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

~ Yogi Berra

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

~ Confucius

From: Natural Stress Solutions

Loving yourself is your magical wand.

~ Louise L. Hay

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is to celebrate.

~ Oprah Winfrey

From: Living Active & Pain-Free

There is a single magic, a single power, a single salvation, and a single happiness, and that is called loving.

~ James Allen

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

From: Audio Program: EveryDay Health ~ Pure & Simple

There is only one thing that people like that is good for them: a good night's sleep.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

I am like a detective about any room in which I must live or work . . . . I will not chance a serious illness just because I'm told that spraying is 'customary.' Of course bugs can be annoying, but I prefer to take my chances with them, if spraying of deadly chemicals into the air I breathe is the only alternative.

~ Gloria Swanson

From: Audio Seminar: How to Achieve Any Goal

Life begets energy. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

Life is a long journey, but busy people make it too short;
The world is a very broad place,
But narrow minded people make it narrow—more than it should be;
Flowers dancing in the wind and moonlight in the snow
are beautiful relaxing sceneries,
but worried people move too hectic
and miss the magic right before their eyes.

~ Hong Ying Ming

From: Natural Remedy At A Glance Reference Guide

If we did all the things we were capable of, we would literally astonish ourselves.

~ Thomas Edison

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

~ Mark Twain

From: Audio Seminar: SoulCaring ~ Make Your Life a Great Adventure

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

~ Aristotle

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

~ Shakti Gawain

From: Detoxify & Rejuvenate

I celebrate all mothers as they guide and shape children into flourishing adults and make lasting contributions to the world through the achievement of their own happiness.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

The one essential thing is that we strive to have light in ourselves. Our strivings will be recognized by others and when people have light in themselves it will shine out from them.

~ Albert Schweitzer

From: Motivational Presentations

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

~ Thomas Alva Edison

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Building Confidence and Enthusiasm

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
~ Confucius

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever accomplished. The successful person has enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Holistic Lifestyle Coaching & Consulting

The whole course of things go to teach us faith.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

~ Maya Angelou

From: Choose Patience • Welcome Change

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain

All great changes are preceded by chaos.
~ Deepak Chopra

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
~ Richard Bach

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney

The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

From: Turning Dreams Into Reality: How to Achieve Your Goals — Part 1

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
~ Richard Bach

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
~ Ethel Barrymore

From: Media Interviews

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

~ Alice Walker

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

From: Turning Dreams Into Reality: How to Achieve Your Goals — Part 2

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

From: Information for Media Producers & Hosts • Magazine Editors & Publishers

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

~ George Bernard Shaw

The natural force within each one of us is the greatest health of all diseases.

~ Hippocrates, the Western Father of Medicine

From: Cultivate Determination and Perseverance

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

~ Annie Sullivan

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and many things that cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

~ Plutarch

From: Wired to Meditate (Audio Book)

Moderation in all things.

~ Terence

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

~ Mother Teresa

From: Host/Presenting • Voice-Over

I dwell in Possibility.

~ Emily Dickinson

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Mission Statement

The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others.

~ Ayn Rand

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

From: How to Motivate Yourself: Motivation Aplenty

It is the mind that makes the body rich.

~ Shakespeare

Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life.

~ Ralph Waldo Trine

From: Audio Program: Secrets to Living Your Best Life Now

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

~ Walter Cronkite

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so that it becomes the guiding light in your life.

~ John-Roger

From: Motivational Presentations: Keynote Addresses

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

~ Dale Carnegie

From: Audio Seminar: Choose to Live a Balanced Life

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

~ Albert Einstein

Consciousness Creation is about the power of out thoughts to create the life we wish to experience.

~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

From: Audio Seminar: A Fresh Start ~ Rejuvenate Your Body & Life Every Day

A full belly is the other of all evil.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

~ Calvin Trillin

From: Health & Nutrition with Susan Smith Jones

From: Contact Us

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience never errs. Only your judgment errs by promising itself results which your experiments didn't produce.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

From: The Healing Power of RAW FOODS

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
~Hippocrates

Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit
~Gabriel Cousens

From: The Calm, Cool & Collected Package

From: Susan's Special Trio Book Sets

From: The Connection Between A Beautiful Smile & A Healthy Body

Let us always meet each other with a smile. For the smile is the beginning of love.
~ Mother Teresa

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~ William Arthur Ward

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa

From: Random Acts of Kindness — Five Memorable Stories

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
~ Ann Landers

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
~ Audrey Hepburn

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
~ Saint Basil

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~ William Arthur Ward

From: Joyful Living

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is to celebrate.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

~ Ellen DeGeneres

From: Relationship Matters

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
~ Jesus Christ

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
~ Nicholas Sparks

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~ Jane Austen

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~ William James

From: Walking on Air — Susan's 30-Day Program

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

~ Albert Einstein

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it than any other person can be.

~ Jane Austen

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

From: Audio Excerpts from Choose to Live Peacefully

When we narrow things down to the essentials, we discover what we most value.

~Alexandra Stoddard

Prosperity is not defined by money alone; it encompasses times, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

~Louise Hay

From: Herbs: Nature's Medicine Chest

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look at them and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

~ Louisa May Alcott

From: Are Depression & Stress Getting the Best of You? — Natural Feel-Good Remedies

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

~ Fred Rogers

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

~ Lee Iacoocca

From: Gluten Freedom: Enjoying a Gluten-Free Lifestyle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness lies in health.
~ Susan Smith Jones

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Everything connects to everythig else.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

From: Is Inflammation Getting the Best of You?

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
~ Albert Einstein

He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert

From: Detoxification

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau

From: Why Spirulina is My Constant Companion

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Algae were the first plants to appear on the planet. Billions of years ago, they transformed the carbon-dioxide-based atmosphere to an oxygen-rich atmosphere in which other life forms could evolve.
~ Bob Capelli

From: How to Rev Up Your Libido

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Your voice makes me tremble inside
And your smile is an invitation
For my imagination to go wild.

~ Anonymous

From: 12 Tips to Attract Money, Prosperity & Success

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

~ Buddha

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

~ Walter Cronkite, American Broadcaster

From: E3•RenewMe!: A Superb Daily Supplement for Men, Women & Pets

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
~ Dalai Lama

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
~Helen Keller

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
~ Joel Osteen

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
~ Joseph Campbell

From: Calming Nature Sounds

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From: Natural Remedies to Prevent & Heal Hangovers

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.
~ Frank Sinatra

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severly brain-damaged three-year-old.
~ John Green

Alcohol is a make-you-stupid drug.
~ Beverly A. Potter & Sebastian Orfali

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man because he is so long void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.
~ William Penn

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
~ George Bernard Shaw

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
~ William James

Because alcohol is encouraged by our culture, we get the idea that it isn't dangerous. However, alcohol is the most potent and most toxic of the legal psychoactive drugs.
~ Beverly A. Potter & Sebastian Orfali

I am very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
~ Jim Carrey

From: The Health Benefits of Whole-Body Vibration Exercise

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
~Jack LaLanne

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
~ Hippocrates

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~ Peggy Fleming

From: True Radiance: 10 Simple Steps to Age Gracefully, Healthfully, Happily & Peacefully

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
~ George Bernard Shaw

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill-health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
~ Jane Austen

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
~ James Allen

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~ Henry Ford

Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
~ Geroge Burns

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

From: Fermented Vegetables: Healing Foods, Probiotics & Recipes

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
~ John Keats

We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust — almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially — better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.
~ Henry Ford

From: The Skinny on PROBIOTICS

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~ Albert Einstein

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~ Hans Christian Andersen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
~ Jane Austen

From: REJUVENATE: 10 Simple Ways to Vibrant Health

From: Motivational Presentations: Lectures & Seminars

Pain is temporary and will pass. But quitting lasts forever.

~ Susan Smith Jones, PhD

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion, and I refuse to talk, walk, and to sleep with the sheep. I will persist until I succeed.

~ Og Mandino

From: Over 260 Positive Words to Enrich the Quality of Your Life

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
~ Jane Austen

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
~ Mark Twain

When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.
~ William Shakespeare

Actions speak louder than words.
~ Abraham Lincoln

From: Choose to Live Peacefully (Audio Book)

All is flux, nothing stays still . . . There is nothing permanent except change.

~ Heraclitus

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From: Services

When we are authentic, when we keep our spaces simple, simply beautiful living takes place.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart,
The secret anniversaries of the heart . . .

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From: Motivational Presentations: Workshops & Retreats

You can accomplish anything if you do not accept limitations . . . whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Come into the garden of life and plant new thoughts and ideas that are beautiful and nourishing. Life loves you and wants you to have the very best. Life wants you to have peace of mind, inner joy, confidence, and an abundance of self-worth and self-love. You deserve to feel at ease at all times with all people and to earn a good living. So plant these ideas in your new garden. You can nourish them and watch them grow into beautiful flowers and fruits that will in turn feed and nourish you all of your life.

~ Louise Hay

From: Conferences & Emcee

If everyone was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes.

~ Mark Twain

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.

~ Andrew Carnegie

From: Anti-Aging, Rejuvenating Facial Masks for Ladies & Gentlemen

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.
~Rudolph Ballentine

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
~Martin H. Fischer

From: Vegetable Soup/The Fruit Bowl

True nobility is exempt from fear.

~ Shakespeare

It is in the mind, and not the sum, that makes every person rich . . . No one can be poor that has enough, no rich, that covets more than he has.

~ Seneca

From: Botanical Remedies At A Glance

In every walk with Nature, one receives more than he seeks.

~ John Muir

To sit in the shade and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

~ Jane Austen

From: Culinary Herbs

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

~ Winston Churchill

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?

~ William Shakespeare

From: Recipes

The trick is to grow up without getting old.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Stressology 101: 7 Surefire Stress Busters

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
~e.e. cummings

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
~ Harry Truman

From: Natural Remedies & Booklet Series

Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

~Albert Einstein

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause of prevention of disease.

~ Thomas Alva Edison

From: BLUE MAJIK—A Pure Source of Phycocyanin

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed one.
~ Mother Teresa

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
~ Ina Garten

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~ Franz Kafka

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
~ James Beard

From: PUSH-AWAY: A Simple, Effective, Strength-Building Exercise for All Ages

An early morning walk is a blessing for the entire day.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
~ Hippocrates

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
~ John F. Kennedy

From: Insomnia Begone! How to Sleep Better: 15 Commandments

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~ Annie Dillard

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
~ Ann Landers

From: CHOOSE TO THRIVE: Open Up to Vitality, Prosperity & Equanimity

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be still and know that I am God.
~ Psalms 46:10

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
~ James Allen

From: KITCHEN GARDENING: Rejuvenate with Homegrown Sprouts

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir

Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
~ Genesis 1:29

From: The Curative Kitchen & Lifestyle

A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body.
~ Proverbs 14:30

The first wealth is health.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
~ Romans 12:2

From: Scrumptious Recipes Using E3Live

The human body system, from hands to teeth to digestive juices, was designed to cope superbly with fruit…nothing fulfills our vitamin, mineral and toxin-cleansing water needs more than fruit.
~Ranulph Fiennes

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
~John Redman Coxe, 1800

From: The Skinny on RAW FOODS & How They Heal Your Body

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health comes from the farm, not the pharmacy.
~ Fritzie, Susan's grandmother

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
~ Hippocrates

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Health is worth more than learning.
~ Thomas Jefferson

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
~ Proverbs 17:22

The best doctor give the least medicine.
~ Benjamin Franklin

From: BE THE CHANGE: Living with Faith, Confidence & Vigor

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Be joyful in hope, patient in afflictions, faithful in prayer.
~ Romans 12:12

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without Light nothing flowers.
~ May Sarton

From: Audio Program: Celebrate Life ~ Living Your Life As If It Matters

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

~ Emily Dickinson

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

~ Walt Whitman

From: Raising Healthy Children

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
~ James Allen

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot (aka: Mary Ann Evans)

From: DETOX-MADE-SIMPLE

Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
~ Proverbs 16:23-25

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
~ Norman Cousins

From: Audio Set: Susan's 6-Title Complete Power Package

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

~ Indira Gandhi

All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin.

~ Lord Byron

From: Audio Book: Wired to Meditate

Let my meditation be pleasing to Him; as for me, I shall be glad in the Lord.
~ Psalms 104:34

On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
~ Psalms 145:5

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
~ Joshua 1:8

From: The ENTIRE 9-Title Vitality & Success Package

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

~Oscar Wilde

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Audio Book: Choose to Live Peacefully

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
~ Thomas Merton

Doctor, no medicine — we are machines made to live, organized expressly for the purpose. Such is our nature. Do not counteract the living principle. Leave it as liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

From: Living on the Lighter Side — NEW

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
~ William James

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer

I keep my health by dieting. People gorge themselves with rich foods, use up their time, ruin their digestion, and poison themselves. . . . If the doctors would prescribe dieting instead of drugs, the ailments of normal man would disappear. Half the people are food drunk all the time. That is the secret of my health.
~ Thomas Edison

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
~ Émile Coué

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~ William Shakespeare

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln

From: Testimonials for Susan Smith Jones

If you can dream it, you can do it.

~ Walt Disney

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

~ Gandhi

From: Susan's Full Collection • All Audios + E-Books RENEW YOUR LIFE

When we choose happiness, we choose love. We feel vibrantly alive, in touch with our inner world, conscious of the miracle of being, here. I believe goodness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness are at the heart of our essential nature, with love as the driving force. Love is our lifeline. With every heartbeat, with every breath of air we take in, like is new and fresh. Now is the only time, here in the only place, to love and live happy.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

The thoughts we have held and the words we have repeatedly used have created our life and experiences up to this point. Yet, that is past thinking. What we are choosing to think and say today, this moment, will create tomorrow and next week and next month and next year. The point of power is always in the present moment. This is where we begin to make changes. What a liberating idea. We can begin to let the old nonsense go. Right now. The smallest beginning will make a difference.

~ Louise L. Hay

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Life is a sum of all your choices.

~ Albert Camus

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

~ Carl Rogers

From: The Healing Power of Taking Infrared Saunas & Sweating

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
~ Aristotle

All you need to do is wake up to this higher level perspective, and then simply ping this universal consciousness to tell it you’re awake and ready to serve. Ask it for guidance, and guidance will come.

~Steve Pavlina

From: TRIO: The Complete Living Your Best Life Package

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and persistently expects.
~ Ralph Waldo Trine

Outside the open window
the morning air is all awash with angels.
~ Richard Wilbur

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Invest & Thrive Duo

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
~ Benjamin Franklin

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~ Harry S Truman

From: HIGH-LEVEL WELLNESS SET—Includes 5 Books

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~ Garrison Keillor

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
~ Franz Kafka

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
~ Henry David Thoreau

From: Sprouting Positive Changes

Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
~ Proverbs 15:17

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
~ Proverbs 3:16

Books were my pass to personal freedom.
~ Oprah Winfrey

From: Choose To Be Energized!

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.
~ Michelle Hobbs

Everything is energy.
~ Albert Einstein

From: A Peek Into Jones’s Personal Life: Susan's Holistic Lifestyle & Influences

A room without books is a body without soul.

~ Cicero

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

~ Dr. Suess

From: Susan's Bio

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
~ George Bernard Shaw

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Healthy Meals for the Family

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

~ George Baruch

He who is calm and of a happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him of the opposite disposition, youth and age are equally burdensome.

~ Plato

From: The ABC's of Herbal Remedies

Chase perfection, and settle for excellence along the way.

~ Vince Lombardi

Health is the first muse and sleep is the condition to produce it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: The ABC's of Green Smoothies

Blessings come from care, troubles from carelessness.

~ Buddha

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Unlock the Power of Infrared Saunas to Heal Your Body, Prevent Disease & Achieve Optimal Wellness

From: Alkalize & Revitalize

Health is a relationship between you and your body.

~Terri Guillemets

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family

From: Transcend Far Infrared Saunas

From: REJUVENATION IN YOUR GLASS OF WATER

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
~ Nicholas Sparks

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
~ Kahlil Gibran

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
~ Mark Twain

Water is the driving force in nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

From: INFRARED SAUNAS: Support for Weight Loss, Blood Pressure, Chronic Pain & More

From: Environmental Chemicals: Their Sources, Harmful Effects & Detox Remedies

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
~Francis Bacon

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
~ Buckminster Fuller

From: BREAST CANCER Healed: How Taking Infrared Saunas Saved A Life

From: When You Are Serious About Whole-Body Detoxification

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.
~ Amy Grant

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
~ Claude Debussy

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
~ Bernie Siegel

From: Natural Beauty: The Choice to Be Beautiful is In Your Hands

From: BEST WATER: The Fountain of Youth & Vitality for All Ages

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
~ Thomas Fuller

From: SKIN MATTERS: Healthy, Vibrant Skin in 12 Easy Steps

The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves.
~Lewis Thomas

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
~Carl Jung

From: Weight Loss & Vitality Made Easy for You & Your Pets

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
~Doug Larson

Raw fruits, and if desired, raw leafy green vegetables form the ideal food of man.
~Arnold Ehret

From: Make a 21-Day Agreement: Changing Habits & Overcoming Addictions

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

~ Aristole

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

~ Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

~ Dale Carnegie

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

- Samuel Johnson

From: Susan's Favorite Nutritional Supplements

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
~ William Penn

Nature always wears the color of spirit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller

Persue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
~ Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Invest in Yourself with Exercise

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
~ Raymond Inmon

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
~ Hippocrates

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

From: WIRED FOR HIGH-LEVEL WELLNESS

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with passion.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
~ Buckminster Fuller

A thorough study of the Bible shows us that the men and women who God used in mighty ways always had the attitude of celebrating what God had done. They did not take His goodness for granted, but they openly showed appreciation and thankfulness for little things as well as big ones.
~ Joyce Meyer

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most intelligent way to move in the direction of a good life is to live each day, each experience, as authentically as we can, with integrity, honesty and courage.
~ Alexandra Stoddard

I am here on earth not to see through others but to help see others through. Kindness is my gift to everyone. In each encounter today, I learn, grow, and deepen in my awareness of love's wonder and blessing.

~ Affirmations