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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moderation in all things.

~ Terence

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

~ Mother Teresa

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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