“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now…with its aches and its pleasures…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.”  - Pema Chodron

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein

“When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.”  - Joseph Campbell

“We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Breathing is the bridge between mind and body, the connection between consciousness and unconsciousness, the movement of spirit in matter. Breath is the key to health and wellness, a function we can learn to regulate and develop in order to improve our physical, mental and spiritual well-being.”  - Dr. Andrew Weil

“Breathing is the bridge between mind and body, the connection between consciousness and unconsciousness, the movement of spirit in matter. Breath is the key to health and wellness, a function we can learn to regulate and develop in order to improve our physical, mental and spiritual well-being.”  - Dr. Andrew Weil

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.”  - William Newton Clark

“What you choose to focus your mind on is critical because you will become what you think about most of the time.”  - Noel Peebles

I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins, And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins.  - Shel Silverstein, Hug O’ War

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”  - Melodie Beattie

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”  - Napoleon Hill

“One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is love.”  - Socrates

What you find now
What you feel now
What you know now (to be real)
- Mary J. Blige and Will Smith, Got To Be Real

“Smart is the new cool.”   - Maureen Dowd

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.”
- Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World