Love all; trust a few; do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa


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


Wherever there is a human being; there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca


Make the most of yourself; for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore; there be any kindness I can show; or any good thing I can do to any fellow being; let me do it now; and not defer or neglect it; as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


Yet this is health:? To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. ~Bertha Stuart Dyment


Nature does not hurry; yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu


A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb


"The words ""I am"" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman"


If I don't write to empty my mind; I go mad. ~Lord Byron


No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne; translated


There is in a man an upwelling spring of life; energy; love; whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it; it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White); More Pages from a Journal; 1910


If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain


Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung


Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato


To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson; Jacob Have I Loved


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out; but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth K?bler-Ross


Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia; Voces; 1943; translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch; a smile; a kind word; a listening ear; an honest compliment; or the smallest act of caring; all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia


It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau


Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz


Enough is as good as a feast. ~English Proverb


"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment; heredity; and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents; their race; their times; lack of good fortune; or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say; ""This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.""? ~Louis L'Amour"


Learning sleeps and snores in libraries; but wisdom is everywhere; wide awake; on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings


The body never lies. ~Martha Graham


Every time you don't follow your inner guidance; you feel a loss of energy; loss of power; a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus





Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal; Pens?es; 1670


God; why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart?? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh; lead me to the Beyond within. ~Macrina Wieherkehr


What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


The thoughts that come often unsought; and; as it were; drop into the mind; are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ~John Locke; 16 May 1699


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young; compassionate with the aged; sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver


Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster


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


The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant


I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher


You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson


A man is not where he lives; but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb


There is a wisdom of the head; and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens


If you doubt yourself; then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen


Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


Art is the desire of a man to express himself; to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell


They are the weakest; however strong; who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee


Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain; but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller


Before enlightenment - chop wood; carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood; carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb


To me; the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about; but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote; McCall's; November 1967


It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us; as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T.Jong


Sex is emotion in motion. ~Mae West


Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin


Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own; instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder


Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown


The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale


Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust


We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge; but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne


Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh; 1889


The greatest hazard of all; losing one's self; can occur very quietly in the world; as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm; a leg; five dollars; a wife; etc. - is sure to be noticed. ~The Sickness Unto Death


Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth


What is commonly called love; namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. ~Henry Fielding


Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honor? de Balzac


The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. ~Author Unknown


He who has health; has hope; and he who has hope; has everything. ~Arabian Proverb


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford


Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley





The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille


I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe


You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so; you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli


A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop; Fables


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


If the mind; that rules the body; ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave; the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury; but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


No one means all he says; and yet very few say all they mean; for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams; The Education of Henry Adams; 1907


A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson


There is no god higher than truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi


If you want others to be happy; practice compassion. If you want to be happy; practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama


Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit


Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. ~Epicurus


To give vent now and then to his feelings; whether of pleasure or discontent; is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini


It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus


Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown


By swallowing evil words unsaid; no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill


Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events; not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler


It's not who you are that holds you back; it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown


Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and; like the seed; become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces; though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry; The Wisdom of the Sands; translated from French by Stuart Gilbert





Every artist dips his brush in his own soul; and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Water; air; and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. ~Napoleon


Learning too soon our limitations; we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Neurotic's Notebook; 1960


The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker; but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. ~Etty Hillesum; quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski


We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles; we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Ana?s Nin; Diary; 1969


The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie; L'Homme Machine


Good for the body is the work of the body; good for the soul the work of the soul; and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau


When your heart speaks; take good notes. ~Judith Campbell


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives; like a thoughtless prodigal; its all; and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah Moore


The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. ~D.H. Lawrence


I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott


Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links; they are; chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser; 1900


Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather. ~Martha Graham


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark


The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson


If I am not for myself; who will be?? ~Pirke Avoth


No man is free who is not a master of himself. ~Epictetus


A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers


There is deep wisdom within our very flesh; if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke


If you haven't any charity in your heart; you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope


Not being able to govern events; I govern myself; and apply myself to them; if they will not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne; Essays; 1588


Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara; Los Cerros Middle School; 1999


Time is too slow for those who wait; too swift for those who fear; too long for those who grieve; too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love; time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke


"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say; ""Go away; I'm looking for the truth;"" and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig"


Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine


Beginning today; treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care; kindness and understanding you can muster; and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino


To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk; but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson


It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown


Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~Source Unknown


Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo


Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock; Baby and Child Care; 1977


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain


The body is a big sagacity; a plurality with one sense; a war and a peace; a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body; nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. ~Henry David Thoreau


We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate; senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses; sixth senses; if you will - equally vital; but unrecognized; and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks


Life is not merely to be alive; but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial


The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil


Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Love is; above all; the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh


"The power of love to change bodies is legendary; built into folklore; common sense; and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh; it pushes matter around.... Throughout history; ""tender loving care"" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey"


Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only; but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone; but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West


Who; being loved; is poor?? ~Oscar Wilde


Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ~Seneca


The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver; Animal Dreams


I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan


Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry; A Raisin in the Sun


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb


There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths; which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them; and so they bring us nothing; but sit and sing awhile upon the roof; and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher


If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing; how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia; Voces; 1943; translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt


And remember; no matter where you go; there you are. ~Confucius


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius


Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ~John Sterling


Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare


Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers; which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is; to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually; without noticing it; and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke; Letters to a Young Poet


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius; Analects


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary


Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke; The Prison and the Angel


Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon


Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers


Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown


Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction; perhaps illusory; that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton


Lend yourself to others; but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne


The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim; this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach; The Essence of Christianity


Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. ~Theodore Geisel


"What ""love"" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams"