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Andy Rooney
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
If all scientific questions got answered, our problem would still not be touched at all.
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Hippocrates (460-370 BC)
“Walking is the best medicine.”
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”
“First do no harm.” (Not applicable to pharmaceuticals with their side effects)
“Foolish is the doctor who despises the knowledge of the ancients.”
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T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., co-author of China Study
The underlying biology for the nutrition-based and drug-based strategies for health maintenance and promotion could hardly be further apart. Drug activity is biologically targeted and opposes the natural order of things. Nutrition is biologically comprehensive and supports the natural order of things. The drug strategy depends on a yearning for acquisition of capital by the few. A nutrition strategy depends on a yearning for acquisition of health by the many... The solution to our current health care crisis: nutritional awareness, experience, convenience, motivation and affordability.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj (Indian Sage)
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing; love is knowing I am everything.
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Bible Luke 4:23
“…heal thyself.”
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Saying
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
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Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) Environmental researcher and author
What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
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Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Cultural anthropologist
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955) Jesuit priest, philosopher
Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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Shakespeare (1564-1616)
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done,
than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
Go to your bosom; knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Oh! it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women in it
merely players. They have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of,
And our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Roman author, orator, & politician
While there's life, there's hope.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Our thoughts are free. Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live honestly.
The first duty is seeking after and the investigation of truth.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Where ever you go, go with all your heart.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Those exercise government by means of virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. Those who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
There are three things which one guards against. In youth...lust. When one is strong...quarrelsomeness. When one is old...covetousness.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Things that are past, it is needless to blame.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
When we see a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking knowledge there.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. Kierkegaard: "It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backward. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forward."
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Advocate of Peace
Learn as if you were going to live forever.
Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Philosopher
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backward.
But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forward.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Philosopher, Artist, Author
Truth is the daughter of inspiration; analysis and debate keep people away from Truth.
As between the soul and body there is a bond, so are body and environment linked. [Soul is to body as body is to environment.]
Poverty is a temporary fault, but excessive wealth is a lasting ailment.
If I cannot give, I shall refuse to receive.
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Nelson Mandela (1918-) South African President
As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.
As we are liberated form our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Francis Kuffel
There comes a time when one just wants to get over it. It just gets tiresome to drag it around.
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John F. Kennedy (1917-63)
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
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Sylvester Johnson (1949-) Concerned citizen
Our successes make us heroes; our failures make us philosophers.
The authority of others may dominate many of the activities of one’s outer life, however self-imposition of those authorities upon one’s inner life impedes self-exploration, discovery and direction. Deep relaxation may re-open the door to self-exploration. The audio recording of this method is free from SylvesterJohnson.com.
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National Treasure, a 2004 film derived from the book by Peter Bleed
What’s one step back from crazy? Passionate.
