"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child." Stephen Nachmanovitch

"If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen the rest of the day." Unknown

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

"If we know ourselves, we're always home, anywhere." Glinda, the good witch of the South, in THE WIZ

"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. " George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." Anonymous

"To control attention means to control experience, and therefore the quality of life." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Going out for a walk, I really found I was going in." John Muir

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch

"The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." Henry David Thoreau

"When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath." Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

"The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy." Charlotte-Catherine

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." William James

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish writer and Jesuit priest

"Our bodies are molded rivers." Novalis

"The five senses are the ministers of the soul." Leonardo da Vinci

“My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- )

“Happiness walks on busy feet.” Kitte Turmell

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau

"The body says what words cannot." Martha Graham

“Solvitur ambulando.” (It is solved by walking.) St. Augustine

"A computer is an interface where the mind and boyd can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." Douglas Adams

"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die." anonymous

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei

“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.” Albert Einstein

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton

“Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind.” Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.” Will Rogers

“The human brain is a mirror to infinity.” Norman Cousins

“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.” Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

“Nothing that has a soul is perfect.” Rachel Remen

“The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Touch is the meaning of being human.” Andrea Dworkin