An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Water’s never clumsy.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I eat next to nothing.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Beware the hobby that eats.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.