“When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world. Sometimes you must give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.”

Michelle Obama

“Go for a walk outdoors. Reconnect with the feeling of the wind blowing through your hair. Listen to the birds that live in a tree in your yard. Watch the sunset. Take time to smell the flowers that bloom in the park during the summer. The natural world is just as natural as it ever was, except there’s less of it than there was 25 years ago — and most of us don’t make a point of enjoying it often enough.”

Skye Alexander author

“A body at motion stays in motion... if you want to keep living, keep moving!" — Sir Isaac Newton/Louis Alley

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.”

– Plato

“Move every 30 minutes”

Columbia University Researchers 2023 Study

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states." 

– Carol Welch

“Walking is man’s best medicine “

 In 400 BC, Hippocrates

"If not Now, then when?" is most familiar to English speakers as a maxim attributed to the Jewish sage Hillel.

Know Thyself!

"Know thyself" (Greek: gnōthi seauton) is an ancient Greek aphorism inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

“Become who you are by learning who you are.”

Pindar, ancient Greek poet  

 “At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want.”

Lao Tzu

“Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling”

― Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome."

Isabel Allende, author

“Sleep fully, then work intensely. Focus deeply, then relax completely. Give each phase your full attention.”

—James Clear author of Atomic Habits

 "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakens."

Goethe

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom 

"The most important relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is the one you have with yourself."

Jay Shetty

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." 

Maya Angelou

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection."

The Budda

“Self-compassion is simply giving yourself the same kindness that you would give to a friend.”

Christopher Germer, a clinical psychologist and author specializing in self-compassion.