Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
~Lewis Carroll
Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Normal day
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
~ Mary Jean Irion
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
~ Mary Jean Irion
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
What we feel
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
~Aldous Huxley
~Aldous Huxley
Of one thing
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
~George Melton
~George Melton
In vain
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle
~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle
The human body
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
~Hermann M. Biggs
~Hermann M. Biggs
Good for the body
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
~Henry David Thoreau
Yet this is health
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
~Bertha Stuart Dyment
If the mind
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
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heart
The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.
~Mimi Guarneri
~Mimi Guarneri
The soul
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
~Daniel Defoe
~Daniel Defoe
Our bodies
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically,
if we are willing to listen.
~Shakti Gawain
if we are willing to listen.
~Shakti Gawain
A sound mind
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~John Locke
~John Locke
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