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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

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

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