"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." Carol Welch

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."
 Joan Welsh

"Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental." Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

"Lessons in life never go away until you learn them." Buddha

"There are too many people, and too few human beings." Robert Zend

"A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy." Paramhansa Yogananda

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul." Wassily Kandinsky

"To understand is to invent." Piaget

"The starting point of all significant change is mindset." Tom Peters

"Once you forget what you're worth, you forget what you deserve." unknown

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems." Bill Watterson (1958 -)

"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." Coco Chanel

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860).]

"Enough organization, enough lists 
and we think we can control the uncontrollable." John Mankiewicz

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?" Albert Einstein

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love." Johnny Depp

"Monsters are very real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King

"When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman they both touch the heart of eternity." Kahlil Gibran

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain." Susan B. Anthony

"To be 'on edge,' you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center." Carrie Latet

"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'" Quincy Jones




"When you can do anything as though you work at nothing you have the best days of your life." Karen Maezan Miller, Momma Zen

"Each person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike...no two people who understand the same sentence the same way...So in dealing with people try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be." Milton Erickson

"There is much more to the mind than just thinking. When your mind is silent, the Universe surrenders." Master Sun, 7 minutes of magic

"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries." Astrid Alauda

"It's an illusion that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who gives this power to them." Anthony de Mello

"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind." John F. Kennedy

"You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it." Ken Keyes, Jr.

"The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." Japanese Proverb

"Across the centuries, we have this timeless medicine: Live directly, wait, and care for your soul as if it were the whole world." Mark Nepo

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." Lao Tzu

"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life." Don Miguel Ruiz

"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep." Henry Maudsley, psychiatrist (1835-1918)

"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day." Marty Bucella

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

"The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully." Earon Davis

"If your body is tired, seek out some fluidly moving part of nature: a fireplace, a river, a field of wind-blown wheat, a thundering surf. Watching and listening to the patterned disorder of the universe is one of the deep soul's favorite pastimes." Martha Beck, The Joy Diet

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." Nora Ephron

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out." 
Michael Burke

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." Etty Hillesum

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." John Updike

"You are as old as your spine." Yogi Bhajan

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water." Barbara Sher

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul." John Muir

"Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well." Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director

"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works, if from the head almost nothing." Marc Chagall

"The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many." Joseph Wood Krutch

"For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls." Mark Nepo

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"You can conquer almost any fear if you make up your mind
to do so...remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere
except in the mind." Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American motivational speaker & author    

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." Japanese proverb

"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment,
other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters." George Bernard Shaw

"Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach." Michel de Montaigne

"Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet." Paul Klee

"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