Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends.
- Topic: Affirmation, Gratitude, Health
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
The tepee is much better to live in: always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move…Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
