Quotes!

[Alissa]

I love quotes!
They can inspire us and have such a huge impact in such few words.
Here is mine for the day:

"It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday habits that control your life"
paramahansa yogananada

I love this one. It is especially good for me because i usually have about 2-3 new ideas a day -as in major life altering ideas such as where to travel, business ventures, and then a bunch of light bulb moments and im always changing what i do daily, which i think is a good thing in a way, but sometimes my "brilliant ideas" and "passing inspirations" take me away from being in the moment and being conscious of the now.

Any other ones you guys like....

[Kristi]

From the Eternal Grandmaster.......creator of our style of taekwondo:

"Today not possible; tomorrow possible."

I use this with the kids all the time. They are familiar with it due to their involvement in taekwondo but I want them to see how it applies to all aspects of our lives.

[marigold]

kristi explain this one ??? :o

my strenght lies in my willingness to be vunerable..i like this one..to remind me that being open and having all my feelings isnt a wimpy thing..

[thunderdancer]

ooooh wow, holding myself back here :)

Ok, my over riding quote that always comes to heart 1st is...

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world"
- Ghandi

[Kristi]

Wow Thunderdancer....I like that one!

Marigold ~ do you mean explain my quote? If so it means you many try and fail today but there is always tomorrow.......what you can do now can be done later if you get up try tomorrow. Never give up!

[marigold]

thanks kristi..i understand now..and of course i agree!!!! :) :) :) :)

[thunderdancer]

Ok, couldn't stop there.

There are more of my favourites although I get a lot of inspiration and 'messages' from songs too. Here are a few of my long time faves....

"If you don't care where you are,
then you ain't lost."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." ~ Rumi

As you sail through this day, find wonder in the many passages awaiting you and awake to the journey of life. ~ Flavia

"Let the little fairy in you fly!" ~ Rufus Wainwright

"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear"
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Breathe yourself love
~one of my poet friend's magnetic poems

[Kristi]

Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!!!!" :D

Another reason for you to sign up for martial arts!

[thunderdancer]

NICE Kristi - was that your own words? I love it!

I'll be back in here with more, I know it :D

[Kristi]

Can't claim that. Not sure who wrote that. I keep a journal of things that inspire me or make me laugh or make me think......or all the above. I never could keep a daily journal. I just find cool things and jot them down it this book. I reread it when I am feeling blue. It puts my priorities in order.

[NWgal]

Ok, couldn't stop there.

There are more of my favourites although I get a lot of inspiration and 'messages' from songs too. Here are a few of my long time faves....

"If you don't care where you are,
then you ain't lost."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." ~ Rumi

As you sail through this day, find wonder in the many passages awaiting you and awake to the journey of life. ~ Flavia

"Let the little fairy in you fly!" ~ Rufus Wainwright

"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear"
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Breathe yourself love
~one of my poet friend's magnetic poems

"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear"
~ Ambrose Redmoon

This really speaks to me right now in my life! Thanks so much Thunderdancer!
I am going back into counseling to face some things I have been so afraid to face.
And this little saying gives me perspective and courage.

thank you so much for sharing this.

[Alissa]

i think this one is great and from someone we all know :D

"Now, I realize that with my history, I can't afford to mess around. As I say, I'm ONE bad decision away from being the miserable person I used to be. So I just don't allow flexibility in my eating plan. I can't, I can't afford to lose control. I love my life right now! Food used to torture me, food caused constant anxiety in my life. I'm free from all of that now. I never want to go back."

Sue 'smasty'

[marigold]

wow that quote is brill smasty...so true yes yes..i want that quote on the cupboard door...

[Kristi]

Sue's quote-----It really helped me. I have it posted inside a cabinet door in the kitchen. That's where I hang inspirational stuff.

[thunderdancer]

Just read an awesome quote...

I think the world would be a better place if everyone remember to play and be silly.

- Kristi!!!

I absolutely totally wholeheartedly agree 10000%

You've been a fab playmate Kristi and i've only known you like a week!

[rawelkie]

I also read a great quote somewhere,really one to think about...It was in Dutch,but I translate it:
"If being sick equals happiness
and being healthy equals unhappiness.
Than,a lot of people have their happiness in their own hands."

[Alissa]

You are already what you are becoming....
If you wonder what your life will be like in 20 years... it will be the same except with a few more gray hairs, unless you change...NOW!

[Wrecked Spark]

I "stole" this one from another raw foodie. I'm sharing it here (I really hope this person doesn't mind (!) since I think it's so worth sharing:

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
- William Emmery Channing

(I hope I have spelled the name correctly as I'm going by memory!)

I would have to say that has been the most powerful phrase I have ever heard. Particularly on this journey to awesome health I have had a very difficult time biting my tongue when I see coworkers and friends making very poor choices or going through a rough time because of the lifestyle they choose or the foods they eat. It's so hard to accept this without coming across as if you're preaching, even though you're only coming from a place of love and friendship by sharing the knowledge you're worked your butt off for! Er... pun intended I think. :rolleyes:

I need to respect and trust that the path others have chosen for themselves are a direct result of what they created, whether they realize this or not. The very best that I can offer is to live my life with the humble wisdom I have earned, and keep climbing higher every day.

Cheers everyone,
Wrecked Spark

[CherimoyaMel]

Hey, Wrecked, that raw foodie was me! That's the quote I use at rawfoodchat.com. I'm glad you "stole it". It's a great quote. .Here's another one:


"Courage is the price life exacts as for having peace." Emilia Earhardt

[vegbaby]

How about this one:

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller

I like this, too:

In a Native American story a grandfather tells his grandson that two wolves are battling inside him; one ferocious and destructive, the other gentle and powerful. When the child anxiously asks, "Grandfather, which of them will win?" he replies, "Whichever one I feed."

Melanie

[Alissa]

You are not at the mercy of events over which you have no control. There is little difference if you believe that your present life is caused by incidents in your early infancy or by events in past lives. Your events, your experiences, your lives are caused by your present beliefs. Change the beliefs and your life changes.

Seth (Jane Roberts)

[Curtis]

Wow Alissa how true that is. :)

[vegbaby]

The most important thing yo can do is participate in the political process - support the environmental groups that take legal action and lobby, and vote to get rid of the politicians who are whoring for industry. It's more importnat than recycling. It's more important than anything else you can do.

--Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Thought that was interesting considering it's election time.

[elaina]

This is my favorite one...(it pertains to what we have been'conditioned' to believe).....Real eyes, Realize, Real lies. How do we become more real??? Rawfood of course!!! Hope you guys like it!! Elaina

[elaina]

I just found another quote I love:"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."-Richard bach Also I found some excerpts from some of David Wolfe's book.......Nature's test is: the trial by fire, to fall with the ash or rise ever higher. Also: It's the cosmic law: that opposition breeds A fertile ash for transforming seeds. Also: Extinguish the fire in which life burns; Release pain's liar from whom one learns. Pretty good huh?!!! Elaina

[FEELIN'GOOD]

Okay, none of my own, but I LOVE Rawkinlocs quote on her signature-

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on suckin' 'til you DO suck seed!" - "Curly" of The Three Stooges

I just about pee'd on myself when I read it! :D

[peacelover]

It is mind over matter-If you don't mind, It don't matter

My religion is very simple-My religion is Kindness
The Dali Lama

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you know that you will never sit...

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
Mother Teresa.......

I could just go on and on with these....

[flutterfly]

When one door closes, another one opens

Some times it doesn't feel that way but if you give it time you can see it happen.

[Autumn]

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you can get what you need."

Mick Jagger :p

[Kathleen]

Think only what you choose to experience, say only what you choose to make real, do only what you choose to demonstrate as your highest reality. We are the creators of our own experience of life. Creating a feeling inside creates the experience outside. -Neale Donald Walsch

[Revvell]

"Leave others to their otherness and take care of yourself" ~ I "think" that was Rocannon MacGregor

"If you don't create your pain consciously, you'll create it unconsciously" ~ Randolphe Stone creator of Polarity Therapy

Injoy ~

Revvell

[Revvell]

Every experience in my life is an opportunity for growth ~

Revvell

[rawpriestess]

If you don't pay attention,
You'll pay with pain.
Christopher Howard

You are either Learning or Having fun,
so if you AREN'T having fun, Learn fast.
Christine D. Winters

Live life with Passion,
anything less is use-less
Christine D. Winters

What you focus on,
you bring to you.
Unknown

That which you fear,
you manifest.
Unknown

Life is a journey,
NOT a destination
Unknown

As you grow older,
you become more like yourself.
Unknown

Everything you do is either,
a cry for help,
or a loving embrace.
Unknown

As far as blind dates go,
I'd rather stay home and
watch videos with my dog.
Christine D. Winters

If you don't make a decision,
you are making the decision,
to allow someone else to make
your decision for you.
Christine D. Winters

[Revvell]

Be definite with the infinite ~ Rev. Ike

Fun is Fundamental ~ Unknown

Don't try to teach pigs to sing ~ you'll frustrate yourself and irritate the pig ~ Unknown

Injoy ~

Revvell

[Revvell]

I'd rather be happy than right ~ Rocannon MacGregor (I think)

Injoy ~

Revvell

[JustusGSD]

This is one of my favorites. :)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

- Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural Speech

[misslinda]

"This town needs an enema!"
~ Jack Nicholson (1937-)

American movie star
from As the Joker in Batman :cool:

[Revvell]

Get your "buts" out of the way and just do it! ~ unknown

Injoy ~

Revvell

[blue_sky]

As far as blind dates go,
I'd rather stay home and
watch videos with my dog.
Christine D. Winters

---rawpriestess~LOL!!! so true :)
_______________________

"when you assume you make an ass out of u and me!!"--unknown. yes not very spiritual. But true all the same.

hmmm.... i shall be back with more

[Revvell]

"Dont take things personal ~ even when meant personally." ~ Rocannon MacGregor

Injoy ~

Revvell

[misslinda]

Ugh, REvell.....my jack nichalson quote and your quote below it go together I think! :p Your timing is more than perfect.

[Revvell]

LMAO *sigh w/ the 10 characters* :o



Ugh, Revvell.....my jack nicholson quote and your quote below it go together I think! :p Your timing is more than perfect.

[misslinda]

"Artichokes have "hearts" too, you know."

[lodestar]

My sunday school teacher Mrs. Webster told us when we were ten years old; "two wrongs don't make a right." She was right. ;)

[misslinda]

"I dont' have to like you but I wil repsect you."



my former boss at our sales meeting to his staff :p

[Revvell]

Very often your solution to the problem is the problem itself ~ Rocannon MacGregor

[lodestar]

Is there any animal, bird, or fish that cooks its food? Were we issued stoves upon birth? Cooking food certainly was not designed by the creator. It is an art created by the dark side, "And he entices every one by that to which their heart is most inclined." (1) It is so easy for the "dark side" to manipulate people in regards to food, for almost everyone willingly gives in to their lusts, appetities, and desires, and the world supports them in this. Yummy, delicious, gooey cooked food - we pay for it with our lives."

--Dr. Rich Anderson, N.D.N.M.D.

1. Essene Gospel of Peace, Chapter 1.

[Meowzr]

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin

"Risk and Reward have the same address."

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out & loudly proclaiming --WOW, What a Ride!" -unknown

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

[Revvell]

You can only work with people from where they are ~ find out where they are ~ and begin there ~ Rocannon MacGregor

It never does anyone any good to co-sign their bs ~ Rocannon MacGregor

People tend to do what people tend to do ~ Once you know their tendancies you'll know what they'll tend to do ~ Anonymous

People will fight to the death before giving up their addictions ~ Rocannon MacGregor

Revvell

[Revvell]

Have fun and play with your food! ~ me. :)


Revvell

[sachis2112]

"the world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Horace Walpole 1717-1797

[caramba]

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
- William Emmery Channing

I would have to say that has been the most powerful phrase I have ever heard.

Yes - thanks for sharing - this rings so many bells with me - wonderful, powerful & inspiring

[deedub]

"If you want a truly healthy body, and the ability to sow pardon in the face of any kind of injury, you must first heal your mind with unconditional love and recognize that your body is a firmly entrenched instrument of spirit."

~Wayne W. Dyer, There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

[rawpriestess]

This is from my mom, when some man told her she was probably fridgid, because she chose a career after divorce, instead of remarrying, in 1958.

Gawd, I loved her spunk!!!

"There are no fridgid women,
only INEXPERIENCED men."

Mom

[sara]

How about this one:

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller

I like this, too:

In a Native American story a grandfather tells his grandson that two wolves are battling inside him; one ferocious and destructive, the other gentle and powerful. When the child anxiously asks, "Grandfather, which of them will win?" he replies, "Whichever one I feed."

Melanie

WOW! That one will make ya think. Loved it Vegbaby! :p

[Revvell]

Existing is instinctual; it is involuntary, reactive self-preservation, with the primary goal of just getting from one day to the next, without regard to quality. Living, on the other hand, is the exercise of certain learned skills, attitudes, and abilities that you have acquired and honed to a sharp and focused edge. Philip McGraw, Ph.D. ~ Life Strategies

[Revvell]

"What most people want is not truth but validation. They want reinforcements for their thinking, right or wrong. They seek out the people and the information that support the conclusions they've already reached, factual or otherwise. The only things they want to have are things that make them feel good, that give them comfort about who or where they are, right now." ~ Phillip McGraw, Ph.D from the book "Life Strategies".

[VeganVixen]

ooh here is a good one from the dalai lama a man commented to him about how beautiful the moon was and he replied SOMETHING LIKE "yes its beautiful ,but we are not on the moon we are on earth so we must admire and protect the earths beauty "


And of course Ill add his usual "I am but a simple monk, nothing more, nothing less"

[VeganVixen]

here is another good one!

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself, a small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough before it ever felt sorry for itself." DH Lawrence

[Revvell]

First heard by me in GI Jane. One of my most favoiritest movies :D



here is another good one!

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself, a small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough before it ever felt sorry for itself." DH Lawrence

[jenna rose]

First heard by me in GI Jane. One of my most favoiritest movies :D


I've loved that poem ever since I heard Viggo Mortensen reciting it on that movie.

[rawpriestess]

"Every action, is a cry for help, or a loving embrace."

Author Unknown

[jenna rose]

"At eighty, I think what I shall regret are the things I always wantedto do and never did; the experiences I denied myself because I was tooconcerned about others' opinions, or too anxious for their approval; but I think I would regret most a life wasted living as someone who was not me."
-Unknown

[Revvell]

Security is for cadavers ~ Bob Parsons

[Revvell]

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves ~ unknown


Revvell

[Revvell]

Re: fungus, i.e. mushrooms ~ One molecule away from being dirt ~ Bo Astrup

[Revvell]

How interesting is it that when things are not going our way, we feel as though that will last forever yet, when things are going well, we feel as though it can't last. ~ Revvell

[VeganVixen]

good ones revvel (by the way ,that name is ALOT like cher or madonna :p )

"He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything" -Ancient proverb


"Heaven is the air between a horses ears" - Ancient arab proverb

[spockafina]

One can begin to reshape the landscape with a single flower, Captain
~Mr. Spock

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest
~Kurt Vonnegut

[Revvell]

If at first you don't succeed, do something different ~ unknown

The definition of insanity ~ keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. ~ unknown

I don't only toot my own horn, I lead the symphony ~ Rocannon MacGregor


Revvell

[Revvell]

Give a person the answer and you limit their quest; teach them how/where to search and you give them a powerful resource ~ Revvell

[Autumn]

The truth is out there - Fox Mulder
:p

[Revvell]

Opportunities to appreciate in everyday life are limited only by youre willingness to see them ~ Noelle Nelson, Ph.D. from "The Power of Appreciation".

Revvell

[VeganVixen]

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

– Albert Einstein

[VeganVixen]

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."

– Luciano Decrescenzo

[sweetgoddess]

Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to Spirit.

The condition of health that we auffer is actually a tool to raise us another degree in our state of consciousness.

~The Language of Soul by Harold Klemp

Revvell, LOVE that one-"I don't only toot my own horn, I lead the symphony "~ Rocannon MacGregor
;)

[VeganVixen]

GREAT quotes girls!

"Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

– Erica Jong

[VeganVixen]

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

E. E. Cummings


lol , Ive been "collecting" these for a while ;)

[petal]

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Wendell Berry

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

There is always music amongst the trees and in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier

Music is what feelings sound like.
Author Unknown

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

[Ireland]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't put him in a bathing suit.

[Dawn39]

How can we have a qoute thread w/o giving credit to the most qouted figure of our generation FORREST GUMP!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

"Stupid is as stupid does" "Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what your gonna get......." ;)


I'm sorry here are some real one's


(FEAR) Do the thing you fear and death of fear is certain......
Ralph W. Emmerson

(FAULTS) Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody lest you spoil God's curriculum.
BAAL SHEM TOV

The hand that holds the whip over our heads is most often our own....
Harvey Eagan

There never has been or could be a good life without self-control..
Leo Tolstoy

[misslinda]

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Wendell Berry
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Petal, I love this quote.




One of my favorite quotes is from the story about the fishermen (Bible)

"Why are you afraid?" -J.C


I like to apply this question to everything I am thinking about or venturing into. I find myself that the list reasons of being afraid is shorter than the list of reasons to NOT being afraid.

[VeganVixen]

There never has been or could be a good life without self-control..
Leo Tolstoy


LOVE this one -ITS SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Dawn39]

I do not know the author of this one


In order to be old and wise we must first be young and stupid!!!!!!!!!!!



Y'all have a wonderful day & a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawn

[misslinda]

Words from Thich Nhat Hanh



If you are capable of living deeply one moment of your life,

you can learn to live the same way

All the other moments of your life.

[Ginger]

I LOVE quotes!!!!

Anger is only one letter short of danger.


“From the time immemorial man has looked for a savior; and when not looking for a savior, he is looking for a cure. He believes in paternalism. He is looking to get something for nothing, not knowing that the highest price we ever pay for anything is to have it given to us for free. Instead of accepting salvation, it is better to deserve it. Instead of buying, begging to stealing a cure, it is better to stop building disease. Disease is of man’s own buildings, and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures without looking to the cause. The false theories of salvation and cures has built man into a mental medicant, being a slave to a profession that has neither worked out its own salvation from disease nor discovered a single cure in all the age long period of man’s existence on earth.”
Dr. Tilden

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."--Hippocrates, M.D., 460-377 B.C., Father of Western Medicine

“Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife--birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative--and fatal--health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
- David Coats from Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

"Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- Chief Seattle, in a letter to President Franklin Pierce, 1852.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[misslinda]

I'm a quote freak too! I really like the [d]anger one. Something to think about tonite :)

[NoGMO!]

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
~ Leo Tolstoy


"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
~ Albert Einstein


"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
~ Leonardo da Vinci


It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes


A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
~Leo Tolstoy


People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer


"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."
~ Don Van Vliet


Cheers! ;)

[Meowzr]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Theodur Suess Geisel


"Risk and Reward have the same address."


"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."


"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --"WOW--What a Ride!"
-unknown

[NoGMO!]

"We have all the health we deserve and no more." ;)

"No genuine recovery can be made until the cause of the impairment of health is removed and no perpetuation of the recovery is possible except upon a basis of continued avoidance of the causes of ill health."

"To remain well requires that we live in a way to perpetuate good health. Whatever breaks down health in the first place will do so again, if it is returned to after health has been restored."

~ Herbert M. Shelton from "Fasting Can Save Your Life"

[sport]

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --"WOW--What a Ride!"
-unknown
I dont think that I approve of this one. It sounds like it was written by someone with no self control making excuses for their actions.

[Callie]

"The only one who can stop me is me-and I can take her!"

"Do what you fear and the death of fear is certain."

[vegggeeemom]

This is one of my favorites. :)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

- Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural Speech

I like this one alot..I just read this on Sweetgoddess' site!

[vegggeeemom]

" We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can -- our attitude."
John Maxwell

[vegggeeemom]

"What most people want is not truth but validation. They want reinforcements for their thinking, right or wrong. They seek out the people and the information that support the conclusions they've already reached, factual or otherwise. The only things they want to have are things that make them feel good, that give them comfort about who or where they are, right now." ~ Phillip McGraw, Ph.D from the book "Life Strategies".

Wow, this one made me stop and think.

[Revvell]

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --"WOW--What a Ride!"
-unknown

I love it. Sounds as though one is living life totally. Excellent!

R.

[Crystal Rose]

"There are more things in Heaven & Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
William Shakespeare

"When you are raw, you cannot do what you don't want to do" (for a living)
David Wolfe

"How you do anything is how you do everything."
On David Wolfe's DVD series, author unknown

"To be a celebrity and not give back is obscene."
Sharon Stone

"I would be Positive, but I just don't have time."
Kathy Griffin, comedienne

"If you are not hungry enough to eat raw food, then you are not really hungry."
Author unknown

"I don't agonize over whether or not I'm eating the right foods. I don't have to, because I know that whatever I choose to eat, it's a good choice... The raw and living food diet will ... free you from the bondage of food!"
Alissa Cohen, Living on Live Food, Page 13

vicki

[Vandy]

He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
-Lao Tzu

That blew me away the first time I heard it... Have a great day!

[misslinda]

Heard this one --one morning on the radio on the way to therapy....

"Accept the fact that some days you are a statue and some days a pigeon!"


I was definately feeling like the pigeon that morning.

[Werevegan]

Living well is the best revenge.




George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)

[Revvell]

Heard this one --one morning on the radio on the way to therapy....

"Accept the fact that some days you are a statue and some days a pigeon!"


I was definately feeling like the pigeon that morning.


...or somedays you're the windshield, some days you're the bug.

R.

[NoGMO!]

Little Edie: "Mother, I missed out on everything!"

Edith Bouvier Beale: "Sure, everything's good that you didn't do... but at the time you didn't want it... you can't go back now."

from the film Grey Gardens

[misslinda]

so today I discovered I'm a mathematician :D seriously ;)

I reviewed all my life concerns, problems and ISSUES.......constructed them into one big mathematical equation......


]"OMG, I'm the only constant variable in this equation--I'm the problem!"

....equations is the language of problems & problems are meant to be solved :)

[exurb]

"Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

[lodestar]

Trying to implant a goal that is incongruent with the self-image is like trying to plant grain by dropping seeds on rock hard bone-dry ground.
This happens when a person tries to make a goal that they are not.
No one can consistently out perform his or her self-image.
No one can long overcome it with willpower.
No one can sneak past it and perform in an incongruent manner.
The bottom line is that you cannot 'do' things without 'being'
the kind of person who does those things.
You must 'be' to 'do.'
Dr. Maxwell Maltz

I am a raw vegan. I am happy....and that makes the doing doable.

[~rawfoodie]

"Take 100% responsibility for yourself."

[karenisraw]

I like my signature quote. It seems appropriate.