Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite sayings and quotes:
– a Chinese Proverb
“First the mind then the body…"
– a Tai Chi classic
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious."
– Carl Jung
“…a good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease."
– T. Colin Campbell
“A person is Heaven and earth in miniature."
– a Chinese Proverb
“A person does not live a hundred years yet worries enough for a thousand."
– a Chinese Proverb
“Words are the voice of the heart."
– a Chinese Proverb
“Preserve the old but know the new."
– a Chinese Proverb
“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
– Corita Kent
“The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
– Anna Quindlen
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."
– Albert Einstein
“Teachers open the door but you must enter by yourself."
– Chinese Proverb
“He who knows he has enough is rich."
– Lao Tzu
“Things don’t change. You change your way of looking that’s all."
– Carlos Castaneda
“Act without doing; work without effort."
– Lao Tzu
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
– Carl Jung
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’"
– Lao Tzu
“Regimen is superior to medicine."
– Voltaire
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
– Voltaire
“Treat your mind by moving your body treat your body by stilling your mind."
– Mark Melchiorre
“If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through."
– Chinese Proverb
“Qigong every day keeps the acupuncturist away."
– Mark Melchiorre
“The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort."
– Hua-Ching Ni
“Reveal your simple self. embrace your original nature."
– Lao Tzu
“After these two Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health."
– James Howell
“To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less."
– Chu Hui Weng
“My inner advisor is dying to heal me."
– Astrid Alauda
“Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."
– Albert Schweitzer
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos…"
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be the change you want to see in the world."
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
– George Bernard Shaw
“No Guru no method no teacher. Just you and I and nature …"
– Van Morrison
“We don’t see things as they are we see them as we are."
– The Talmud
“If there were a little more silence if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something."
– Federico Fellini
“Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow"
– Zhi Gang Sha
“Genes may be our predisposition but they are not our fate"
– Dean Ornish
“Wherever we go whatever we do self is the sole subject we study and learn"
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him."
– Carlos Castaneda
“Direct your eyesight inward and you will find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered"
– Henry David Thoreau
“We are constantly invited to be who we are."
– Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present launch yourself on every wave find your eternity in each moment."
– Henry David Thoreau
“Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!"
– Henry David Thoreau
“The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer."
– Henry David Thoreau
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us."
– Marrianne Williamson
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside."
– Ramana Maharshi
“You can’t change your life without changing your life."
– Mark Reinhart