Favorite Quotes

Dante Alighieri: “In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”

Dr. Wayne Anderson: “Optimal health is a journey taken one step, one habit and one day at a time.”

Buddhist Sutra: “Unceasing change turns the wheel of life and so reality is shown in all its many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy. Dwell peacefully with al of these patterns of change, and to have faith that the unceasing turning of the wheel is spinning us all toward greater wisdom and joy.

Jimmy Carter: “The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determined by its own destiny.”

Deepak Chopra: “We limit ourselves by defining ourselves and giving labels that limits ourselves.”

Stephen Covey: “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light the fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

Dalai Lama: “The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.”

Einstein: “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.”

Victor Frankl: “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

Robert Fuller: “Good habits once established, are just as hard to break as bad habits.”

Jesus: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

Jung: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

Jung: “What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.”

Kurdish saying: “The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in the emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.”

Stephen Levine: “The beginning of the path of healing is the end of life unlived.”

Mizuta Mosalinda (17th century Japanese poet): “Barns burnt down, now I can see the moon.”

Dolly Parton: “Find out who you are and then do it on purpose.”

Rumi: “Let yourself be silently drawn, by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

Rumi: “Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.”

Jim Ryun: “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Thoreau: “Be resolutely and faithfully what you are, not who you think you should be.”

Chinese Sage Seng Ts’An: “Don’t keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions, loosen grip of judgments-give truth chance to reveal itself.”

Mark Twain: “The trouble with the worlds is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.”

Unknown: “Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then, he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. He lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived.”

Lee Ann Womack: “When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”