Musings

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Mae West

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

- Unknown

“Health is not valued until sickness comes.” 

- Thomas Fuller

“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

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Ray Kroc

“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

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

- Darius Naigamwalla

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

- Unknown

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

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Naval Ravikaat

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Maxime Lagacé

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Plato

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

- Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)

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

- John Steinbeck

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

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

- Peter Calin

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

- Aesop, Greek fableist

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

- Milton Berle

“Visualize….then attack!”

- Coach Klein, from the movie The Waterboy

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“Is it the mountain we conquer but ourselves?”

- Edmund Hillary

“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

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

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

- John Wayne

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

- Dr. Suess

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” 

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Rachel Wolchin

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”  

- Socrates

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”

- Joseph Pilates

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.”

- D. H. Sidebottom

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”

- Stanislaw J. Lee

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Publilius Syrus

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

- William Londen

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

- Fred Allen

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

- Julia Childs

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

- Nic Machiavelli

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

- Robert Schuller

“Live for today, plan for tomorrow.” 

- Darius Naigamwalla

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

- Denis Waitley 

“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

- Voltaire

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Phil’s brother-in-law

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

- Irish proverb

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

- Tony Gaskins

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

- Joyce Meyer

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Ayurvedic Proverb

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

- J. J. Watt

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

- Venkat Desireddy

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

- Morgan Wooten

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Robin Wright

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“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

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

- Darius Naigamwalla

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Satchel Paige

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Tom Brady

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

- Plato

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

- Dwight Eisenhower

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

- Bruce Lee

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”

- George William Curtis 

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”

- Robert Urich

“The first wealth is health.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henry L. Bergson

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

- Naval Ravikant

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“Create healthy habits, not restrictions.”

- Unknown

“Have the courage to be insanely bold.” 

- Amit Munshi

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

- Ntsiki KaCaleni

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

- Oscar Wilde

“Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.” 

- Anita Renfroe

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Darius Naigamwalla

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”  

- Robert Urich

“Seize the initiative.” 

- Saul Miller

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

- Sommerset Maugham

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Einstein

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Aesop

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

- Unknown

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

- W.P. Kinsella

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

- Unknown

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

- Socrates

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Unknown

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

- Iam Maclaren

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

- Bruce Daggy

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

- Franklin D Roosevelt

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Unknown

“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

“Judgment is best served for the mirror.” 

- Gilles Paige

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

- Unknown

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

- Van Halen

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

- Unknown

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your body hears everything your mind says.”

- Naomi Judd

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

- Kevin Trudeau

Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

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

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

- Yogi Berra