Pacific Rim Wellness :: WELL

Q U O T E S

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.

Bill Morgan, Jr.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp
if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
and don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into a state of well being
and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and
I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill ...
if one keeps on walking everything will be alright.

Soren Kierkegaard

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it,
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings — it's all a miracle.
I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play,
his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion.
He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

James A. Michener

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies,
they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Will Rogers

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin
to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life,
not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience
— to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

M. Scott Peck

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie