Quotes

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

--Michelle Burford

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

--Albert Schweitzer

No matter how qualified or deserving you are, you will never reach a better life until you can imagine it for yourself, and allow yourself to have it. --Richard Bach

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud became more painful than the risk it took to bloom.
-- Anais Nin

But once you are ABLE to dare greatly, once you REALIZE that you CAN dare greatly whenever, wherever you choose, THEN... it's time to be conservative. Then, it's time to choose your battles VERY wisely, and when you do find a righteous battle which makes your heart soar, your mind reel and your body tingle, then fight with every ounce of your soul.

--Scott Sonnon

The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

--Quentin Regestein

The more mechanically distorted a person is, the less energy for thinking, metabolism, and healing.

--Dr. Roger Sperry noted Nobel Prize winner in brain research.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
--Oscar Wilde

Be the change you want to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

--Chinese Proverb

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

--World Health Organization, 1948

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

--Meryl Streep

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

--Ken Wilbur

Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet.
--St. Augustine

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
--Henry David Thoreau

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s not that they can’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t see the problem.
--G. K. Chesterton

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
--Dalai Lama

If our intention is to change who we essentially are, we will fail. If our intention is to become who we essentially are, we cannot help but live true to the deepest longings of our soul.

--Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
--Thomas H. Huxley

I can sum up everything I have learned about life in three words: It goes on.
--Robert Frost

There are those upon this earth who are so scared of dying that they cease to truly live.

--Oscar from a currently unpublished book

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.
--Cyril Connolly

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

--Marcel Proust

I would rather have a mind open to wonder than one closed by belief.

--Gerry Spence

Pain is important; how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

--Audre Lorde

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

--Robert Gary Lee

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

--Confucius