Sometimes I like to read quotes to wake up my consciousness. To see what I have not seen before and to create my own thoughts. I don’t treat thoughts of others as truths but rather than an opportunity to wake up something within me, perhaps another deeper thought.

On Health

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
― Hippocrates

“The center [of the supermarket] is for boxed, frozen, processed, made-to-sit-on-your-shelf-for-months food. You have to ask yourself, "If this food is designed to sit in a box for month and months, what is it doing inside my body?" Nothing good, that´s for sure.”
― Morgan Spurlock, Don't Eat This Book

“The doctor of the future will be oneself.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.”
― Paul Brunton

“Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.”

“At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.”― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”

“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”

― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

‘The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it” ~ Maimonides

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” ~ Maimonides

Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is god, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

If you know what love is, it is because of You.

I live in my dreams - that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow he world within to assert itself.

Roy H. Williams

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you’re not that person, either.

Aldous Huxley

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that your own self.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Ayn Rand

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Jack london

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you re just as hungry as the dog.

Leonardo Da Vinci

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.