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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the mind that makes the body rich.

~ Shakespeare

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

~ Ralph Waldo Trine

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

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

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

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

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

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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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




 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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