“A happy life is impossible, the highest thing that man can aspire to is a heroic life; such as a man lives, who is always fighting against unequal odds for the good of others;
and wins in the end without any thanks.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
-Francisco Chico Xavier
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity,
wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience
that reveals the human spirit.”
-E.E. Cummings
“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone
who is going to someday walk into my life and
need someone to love them beyond reason.”
-Jennifer Elisabeth
“When health is absent,
wisdom cannot reveal itself,
art cannot manifest,
strength cannot fight,
wealth becomes useless,
and intelligence cannot be applied.”
-Herophilus
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody,
even one’s own relations.”
-Oscar Wilde
“What is right is often forgotten by
what is convenient.”
-Bodie Thoene
“Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is
a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.”
-Eugen Sandow
“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.”
-G. Michael Hopf
“Our wounds are often the openings into
the best and most beautiful part of us.”
-David Richo
“Everyone can perform magic,
everyone can reach his goals,
if he is able to think,
if he is able to wait,
if he is able to fast.”
-Hermann Hesse
“There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the soundbox is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you. Be empty and cry as a reed instrument. Be empty and write secrets with a reed pen. When satiated by food and drink,
an unsightly metal statue is seated where your spirit should be. When fasting, good habits gather like helpful friends. Fasting is Solomon’s ring. Don’t give in to illusion and lose your power. But even when will and control have been lost, they will return when you fast, like soldiers appearing
out of the ground, or pennants flying in the breeze.”
-Rumi
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly,
is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories.
Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
Do it as well as you possibly can.
You will get an enormous reward.
You will have created something.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,
read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it
were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Learn the rules like a pro,
so you can break them like an artist.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
-Chuck Klosterman
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
-Rainbow Rowell
“I’d rather have roses on my table
than diamonds on my neck.”
-Emma Goldman
“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what
he thinks, but by his actions.”
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The formula for success is simple:
Practice and concentration,
then more practice and concentration.”
-Babe Didrikson Zaharias
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
-Voltaire
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
-William W. Purkey
“Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
-Rumi
“We should consider every day lost on
which we have not danced at least once.”
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
-Rumi
“Love turns work into rest.”
-Teresa of Avila
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
-Albert Einstein
“Foods high in bad fats, sugar, and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients—foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes—contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.”
-Marilu Henner
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing
self-love over self-judgment.
You are beautiful!”
-Steve Maraboli
“Don’t make it your goal to be fit.
Make it your goal to be disciplined
and being fit will follow.”
-Paige Hathaway
“All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
-Charles M. Schulz
“But you know what, leftovers make you feel good twice. Did you ever think about that? Leftovers give you two separate good feelings. When you first put them away, you feel really intelligent, ‘I’m saving food.’ And then, after a month, when hair is growing out of them, and you throw them away, you feel really intelligent, ‘I’m saving my life.’”
-George Carlin
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase
the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as
the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
-Albert Einstein
“There are two things a person
should never be angry at,
what they can help,
and what they cannot.”
-Plato
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down,
you cannot see something that is above you.”
-C.S. Lewis
“Accept responsibility for your life.
Know that it is you who will get
you where you want to go, no one else.”
-Les Brown
“There is nothing noble in being superior
to your fellow man; true nobility is being
superior to your former self.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“If you do not have control over your mouth,
you will not have control over your future.”
-Germany Kent
“When you react, you let others control you.
When you respond, you are in control.”
-Bohdi Sanders
“You’ll never cross an emotional bridge,
if you keep rushing back to the other side.”
-T.F. Hodge
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
-Norman Vincent Peale
“Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.”
-Deepak Chopra
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions.
I want to use them, to enjoy them,
and to dominate them.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel
in which it is stored than to anything
on which it is poured.”
-Seneca
“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
-Epictetus
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling
but a vessel that needs igniting.”
-Plutarch
“One day can make your life.
One day can ruin your life.
All life is, is four or five days
that change everything.”
-Beverly Donofrio
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
-William James
“When you dominate other people’s emotions,
the time has to come when you will have to pay,
and heavily, for that privilege.”
-Ethel Waters
“If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.“
-Chinese Proverb
“Men are like steel.
When they lose their temper,
they lose their worth.”
-Chuck Norris
“The emotion that can break your heart
is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
-Nicholas Sparks
“Don’t let people who don’t care about you,
manipulate your mind, feelings and emotions
or control how you think about yourself.
Never give that much power to someone else.”
-Karon Waddell
“When life goes down, don’t worry.
Sometimes you have to go down
to learn the things that are down”
-Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Resentment is like taking poison
in hopes that your enemy will die.”
-Sandi Bachom
“The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart”
-Helen Keller
“Rage―whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us―is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.”
-Bonnie Myotai Treace
“What we feel is a choice.”
-Piyush Shrivastav
“If we knew better we would do better. Most people
are failing not because they don’t have the talent.
Most people don’t know that they don’t know,
and they think they know. And consequently
they’re not open to any new information.”
-Les Brown
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.
If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
-Hippocrates
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and
not let it drown in the noise of others.”
-Charlotte Eriksson
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
-Alan W. Watts
“That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex:
You have to work hard to get your
thinking clean to make it simple.
But it’s worth it in the end because once you
get there, you can move mountains.”
-Steve Jobs
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
-Jules Renard
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“There’s no weakness as great as false strength.”
-Stefan Molyneux
“How can you stay so calm?”
“It helps if you’re terrified.”
-John Flanagan
“If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I’d guess you’re not that happy or successful.”
-Rob Liano
“Anyone can become angry―that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way―that is not easy.”
-Aristotle
“And if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like a gentile and a tax collector.”
(Matthew 18:15-17).
“When you betray somebody else,
you also betray yourself.”
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
“When you try to avoid the pain,
it creates greater pain.”
-Jennifer Aniston
“But as they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, ‘He who is without sin among you,
let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’”
-John 8:7
“Assertion is vital within a relationship. Aggression is not.”
-Georgia Lanoil
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and discover that the prisoner was you.”
-Lewis B. Smedes
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time
and always one more time.”
-Maya Angelou
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance
to make a new beginning.”
-Desmond Tutu
“Everything we hear is opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is perception, not the truth.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“First step in solving any problem
is recognizing there is one.”
-Aaron Sorkin
“Forgiveness does not change the past
but it does enlarge the future.”
-Paul Lewis Boese
“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution
through communication.”
-Shannon L. Alder
“The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ―all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself―that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness―that I myself am the enemy who
must be loved―what then?”
-Carl Jung
“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.”
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry
rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“The afternoon knows
what the morning never suspected.”
-Robert Frost
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot
“The fireworks begin today.
Each diploma is a lighted match.
Each one of you is a fuse.”
-Ed Koch
“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
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The more you’re obsessed by something,
the better chance you have of achieving it.”
-Frank Zane
“Two kinds of people have many friends,
one with bank balance and the other with boldness.”
-Amit Kalantri
“Every man has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you.
You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
-Bob Marley
“Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them
one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your
eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a full-hearted
smile to at least three complete strangers. You’ll be
amazed at what this does for them and for you.”
-Dan Pearce
“‘I am looking for friends.
What does that mean—tame?’
‘It is an act too often neglected,’ said the fox.
‘It means to establish ties.’
‘To establish ties?’
‘Just that,’ said the fox. ‘To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.’”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“When you do talk to people, share what you are.
Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t.
Stop focusing on all of the physical features
that you think people won’t like about you.
Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you
know people already love about you. Focus on
your abilities and the talents that you do have.
You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book.”
-Dan Pearce
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life
—music and cats.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively
as the fear of making a mistake.”
-John Cleese
“There is nothing better than a friend,
unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
-Linda Grayson
“Some old wounds never truly heal,
and bleed again at the slightest word.”
-George R.R. Martin
“There’s not a word yet,
for old friends who’ve just met.”
-Jim Henson
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you
and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
-Anais Nin
“If you have good friends,
no matter how much life is sucking,
they can make you laugh.”
-P.C. Cast
“A great fire burns within me,
but no one stops to warm themselves at it,
and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”
-William Jennings Bryan
“‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you,
then you become Real.’
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.
‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’
‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’
‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’”
-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding
forms of introspection.”
-Lawrence Durrell
“When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.”
-Lao Tzu
“I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
-Aristotle
“Very little is needed to make a happy life;
it is all within yourself,
in your way of thinking.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you.”
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
“It is no measure of health to be
well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“Talk between women friends is always therapy.”
-Jayne Anne Phillips
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when
they are watching their whole world fall apart,
and all they can do is stare blankly.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“‘What’s your name,’ Coraline asked the cat. ‘Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?’
‘Cats don’t have names,’ it said.
‘No?’ said Coraline.
‘No,’ said the cat. ‘Now you people have names.
That’s because you don’t know who you are.
We know who we are, so we don’t need names.’”
-Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“I got you to look after me,
and you got me to look after you,
and that’s why.”
-John Steinbeck
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
-Terry Pratchett
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone,
you’re in bad company.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
“You can either be a victim of the world
or an adventurer in search of treasure.
It all depends on how you view your life.”
-Paulo Coelho
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the
millions of people who accept you for what you are.
All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
-Jodi Picoult
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge,
and that is why knowledge is the best and safest
treasure to acquire.”
-L. Frank Baum
“‘I must be overtired’, Buttercup managed. ‘The excitement and all.’
‘Rest then’, her mother cautioned. ‘Terrible things can happen when you’re overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.’”
-William Goldman, The Princes Bride
“’There is a tiger in my room,’ said Frances.
‘Did he bite you?’ said Father.
‘No,’ said Frances.
‘Did he scratch you?’ said Mother.
‘No,’ said Frances.
‘Then he is a friendly tiger,’ said Father. ‘He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.’”
-Russell Hoban
“You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”
-Pawan Mishra
“The right thing to do
and the hard thing to do
are usually the same.”
-Steve Maraboli
“Fairy tales are more than true:
not because they tell us that dragons exist,
but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
-Neil Gaiman
“Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you’ll see the world
If I’m not mistaken …
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure …
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
-Neil Gaiman
“Some people talk in their sleep.
Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
-Albert Camus
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily.
Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the
skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in
a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
-David Benioff
“Insomnia is a gross feeder.
It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking,
including thinking about not thinking.”
-Clifton Fadiman
“For those who are willing to make an effort,
great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
“It’s no use going back to yesterday,
because I was a different person then.”
-Lewis Carroll
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse,
how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh
my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
-William Shakespeare
“Don‘t be ashamed to weep; ‚tis right to grieve.
Tears are only water, and flowers, trees,
and fruit cannot grow without water.
But there must be sunlight also.
A wounded heart will heal in time,
and when it does, the memory and love
of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
-Brian Jacques
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood;
don’t go there alone.”
-Augusten Burroughs
“No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of another.”
-Charles Dickens
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.
Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
“The monsters were never under my bed.
Because the monsters were inside my head.
I fear no monsters, for no monsters I see.
Because all this time the monster has been me.”
-Nikita Gill
“Laugh and the world laughs with you,
snore and you sleep alone.”
-Anthony Burgess
“We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.”
-Lewis Carroll
“I have taken final leave [of politics].
I think little of them and say less.
I have given up newspapers in exchange for
Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid,
and I find myself much happier.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“No disease that can be treated by diet
should be treated with any other means.”
-Maimonides
“Many of my patients have reported that CBD has helped reduce feelings of anxiety, making them feel more relaxed
and calmer. They are less likely to report panic symptoms
or dramatic shifts in mood, and they say that it helps reduce difficulty initiating sleep. Having worked for 14 years in addiction and substance abuse, CBD has been a great alternative for patients who don’t want to use cannabis
with the THC effects. In addition, some report a decrease in urges to use their drug of choice since the CBD reduces their overall anxiety, and triggers to relapse are often experienced as intense tension and anxiety.”
-Jessica Nicolosi
“When all else fails,
give up and go to the library.”
-Stephen King
“A room without books
is like a body without a soul.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos.
It’s like an ache. You’re not going to provide a
patient ache medicine without figuring out
what’s reasoning the pain.”
-Judith Owens
“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”
-W.C. Fields
“Real difficulties can be overcome.
It’s only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
-Theodore Vail
“A day of worry is more exhausting
than a week of work.”
-John Lubbock
“Work is a blessing.
God has so arranged the world that work is necessary,
and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment
of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the
joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as
it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make
food and drink such pleasures.”
-Elisabeth Elliot
“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than
three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is
sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the
things we do for each other every day.”
-Nicholas Sparks
“I have been using CBD on various patients at my functional medicine center for some time now, and we are loving the clinical results! I use it to support healthy balanced inflammation levels in people with autoimmunity, pain, and anxiety. For some, CBD has truly been the missing link in their health puzzle. It’s one of the few things that I, too, take every day.”
-William Cole
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass
under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur
of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky,
is by no means a waste of time.”
-John Lubbock
“If you want the best the world has to offer,
offer the world your best.”
-Neale Donald Walsch
“When I was young,
I admired clever people.
Now that I am old,
I admire kind people.”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
“A hungry person has no heart
and an angry person has no brain.”
-P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,
just remember that all the people in this world
haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“‘Always expect something to go wrong,’ he told him. ‘Believe me, if you’re wrong, you’re not disappointed. If you’re right, you’re ready for it.’”
-John Flanagan
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists,
then we sacrifice our imagination
on the altar of crude reality and we end up
believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
-Yann Martel
“Never give up on a dream just because
of the time it will take to accomplish it.
The time will pass anyway.”
-Earl Nightingale
“If you light a lamp for someone else,
it will also brighten your path.”
-Buddha