Musings

“If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.” 

- Tony Gaskins

“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” 

- Satchel Paige

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” 

- Yogi Berra

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” 

- Fred Allen

“Somebody once said there’s only two things that are important: sickness and death. And since you don’t have either of them, you should be very happy.”

- Groucho Marx

The Duality of Love

“Have we skewed, malappropriated or misunderstood the emotion of LOVE. Love is the one powerful emotion generating all other emotions into existence. If we didn’t care, didn’t love, we would not grieve, feel guilt or shame, get angry or fear be afraid for our wellbeing or the wellbeing of others.”

- Peter Calin

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” 

- Maya Angelou

“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.”

- Julia Childs

“Is it the mountain we conquer but ourselves?”

- Edmund Hillary

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.”

- Naval Ravikant

“Have the courage to be insanely bold.” 

- Amit Munshi

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”  

- Henry L. Bergson

“It is health which is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“The wish for healing has always been half of health.” 

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

- Hippocrates

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” 

- Alexander the Great

“Health is not valued until sickness comes.” 

- Thomas Fuller

“Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.” 

- John Wayne

“Fear is the mindkiller.  It is the small death that leads to total distractedness, total displacement, total non-awareness, total non-presentness, total stress, total obliteration.  Do not fear your fear.  Be aware of your fear.  Let it pass through you, over you , under and around you. Then notice that when you have let it pass, in that present moment, only you remain”

- Peter Calin

Extrapolated from Dune

“Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others treat you.” 

- Steve Maraboli

“Let’s build wellness rather than treat disease.”

- Bruce Daggy

“It is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do.”       

- Meister Eckhart

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.”

- D. H. Sidebottom

“Visualize….then attack!”

- Coach Klein, from the movie The Waterboy

“If opportunity doesn’t know, build a door.” 

- Milton Berle

“Your body hears everything your mind says.”

- Naomi Judd

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

- Sommerset Maugham

“The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.” 

- Phil’s brother-in-law

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

- Plato

“Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.” 

- Anita Renfroe

“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.”

- Robin Wright

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” 

- Van Halen

“When diet is wrong medicine is of no use, when diet is correct medicine is of no need.”

- Ayurvedic Proverb

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on” 

- Franklin D Roosevelt

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”

- Robert Urich

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” 

- W.P. Kinsella

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” 

- Aesop

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”

- Joseph Pilates

“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Breath. Focus on the breath and just breathe.”

- Darius Naigamwalla

“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”

- Stanislaw J. Lee

“To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” 

- William Londen

“Your mind is a weapon. Keep it sharp.” 

- Darius Naigamwalla

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” 

- Irish proverb

“Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever you were going to do anyway.” 

- Robert Downey Jr.

“When you are asked ‘who are you?’ do you answer with what you do [for a living]?”

- Peter Calin

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”   

- Frank Outlaw

“It’s not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us.” 

- Rachel Wolchin

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist—that is all.”

- Oscar Wilde

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” 

- Marcel Proust

“The more you understand yourself, the more silence there is, the healthier you are.” 

- Maxime Lagacé

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” 

- Aesop, Greek fableist

Courage is grace under pressure. (Hemingway), I try to live this not always successfully.

- Ernest Hemingway

“A fit, healthy body — that is the best fashion statement.” 

- Jess C. Scott

“Be clear about your intention(s). They will manifest in your reality.” 

- Darius Naigamwalla

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” 

- Oscar Wilde

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”  

- Socrates

“If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?” 

- Tom Brady

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” 

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”

- George William Curtis 

“A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it.”

- J. J. Watt

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” 

- Lao Tzu

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” 

- Voltaire

“Seize the initiative.” 

- Saul Miller

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” 

- Napoleon Hill

“Create healthy habits, not restrictions.”

- Unknown

“Life has two rules. Rule #1: Never Quit. Rule #2: Always Remember Rule #1”

- Unknown

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

- Socrates

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” 

- Thomas Carlyle

“You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.” 

- Morgan Wooten

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” 

- Iam Maclaren

“Be like water….flow, and then CRASH!” 

- Bruce Lee

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.” 

- Wolfgang von Goethe

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” 

- Einstein

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” 

- Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

- John Maxwell

“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” 

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”

- Joyce Meyer

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

- Jim Rohn

“The first wealth is health.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?”

- Plato

“Success is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!” 

- Ray Kroc

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”

- Will Rogers

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its’ limits” 

- Albert Einstein

“Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.”

- Kevin Trudeau

“Don’t worry about what others think….most people don’t use their brain very often.” 

- Venkat Desireddy

“A lost gold coin is found by means of a penny candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.”

- Unknown

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”  

- Robert Urich

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you can not be both.” 

- Nic Machiavelli

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” 

- Theodore Roosevelt

“Yes, I am trying to be healthy. No, I am not on a diet.”

- Unknown

Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

- Attributed to many including Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain

Don’t be a Donkey!

“You’ve probably heard the fable, I think it’s ‘Buridan’s ass,’ about a donkey who is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water. He just keeps looking left to the hay, and right to the water, trying to decide. Hay or water, hay or water? He’s unable to decide, so he eventually falls over and dies of both hunger and thirst. A donkey can’t think of the future. If he did, he’d realize he could clearly go first to drink the water, then go eat the hay.

“So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don’t be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.”

- Tim Ferriss

“If we don’t change the direction we are going, we are likely to end up where we are heading.”      

- Unknown

“Judgment is best served for the mirror.” 

- Gilles Paige

“No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.” 

- Dwight Eisenhower

“Live for today, plan for tomorrow.” 

- Darius Naigamwalla

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny and then do it.” 

- Henry Ford

“A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.”

- John Steinbeck

“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.”

- Unknown

“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” 

- Publilius Syrus

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

- Mother Theresa

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” 

- Dr. Suess

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” 

- Vince Lombardi

“If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.”

- Unknown

“Fall in love with taking care of your body.”

- Unknown

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good!”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” 

- Mae West

“You can’t control everything in your life but, you can control what you put in your body.”

- Unknown

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”  

- Denis Waitley 

“Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.” 

- Naval Ravikaat

“If you don’t recognize an ingredient, your body won’t either.”

- Unknown

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”  

- Mother Teresa

“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than do nothing and succeed.”

- Robert Schuller

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“I’ve not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” 

- Thomas Edison

“When the heart is free of all unnecessary things [fear, anger, guilt, shame, sadness, self-doubt, insecurity, lack of self-worth, lack of self-love], it gets immense strength to carry out its purpose.”  

- Rajneesh

“What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” 

- Ntsiki KaCaleni