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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Walt Whitman